The high hopes we had on 23rd May have been blasted - the No 2 is back from Tokyo with no news about anything and no allowance. If Dora hadn't helped me out - I'd have been broke weeks ago. My cold isn't much better so I'm feeling rather miserable but Hope On. AMLAML B.B
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Doris Brooks, a stenographer with Jardine Matheson, marries Police Sergeant Duncan George MacPherson.
Source:
Greg Leck, Captives of Empire, 2006, 618
Vaudeville ("Pomy" ((sp?)) ballet, Mills, Sarah Simpson, Booker, Stalker) (Nina Valentine, Bendall & Garton, Cyril Brown, Goldie and Peggie, Brenchley, Heasman, Marie O'Connor, N.
I pointed out that during those years he would have time to select another young architect who could work with me and gain the necessary experience and suggested that my name should not appear in the firm’s title at all. But unfortunately this suggestion did not appeal to him. He said that it was essential in such a project for the name of the architect to appear and for the architect to become a well known personality in the Colony. If I were to leave in a few years time he would have to start all over again with a new man. I saw his point of view and he, I think saw mine.
Vaudeville ((for details see 10th))
B.O.
However, should architecture fail, I may yet get a job at Hollywood! Mrs Gordon Jenner has, for several years lately, while travelling in Europe as a foreign correspondent for her American paper, been doing a bit of talent spotting for some of the film companies. She works on a commission basis – either lump sum or sort of royalties on subsequent films in which her find appears. She says it is awful, as she goes about viewing possible young men as worth so much ‘gold’! And she told me she could sell me to one of the companies.
Letter No 6 turned up today. Not much new in it - but you put "Pam" H in this one so it must be Miss Harrop. You were going to make Strawberry Jam for me - I'm afraid it will have grown whiskers before I see it! You'd had a letter from Jean - Butters I presume. Harry hasn't had any parcels either - though he had a letter last November 2 months before I did.
Death of Reginald Trounce Nelson (aged 64).
He was the son of Robert Arthur E. Nelson, R.N., and Harriet Nelson and the husband of Minnie Nelson.
Before being sent to Stanley he was held at the Kowloon Hotel.
An internee spots Dr. Selwyn-Clarke being brought to Stanley Prison.
Sources:
Nelson: http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/civilians/html/n_database_10.htm
Vaudeville ((for details see 10th))
Death of R. Trounce Nelson (63)
Selwyn-Clarke brought to Gaol
B.O. incident (Alabaster) all l.o. 9.30
5 pkts. cigs
The choir and the musicians were behind the screen. The poem tells the story of how her husband is killed in the Great War of 1914-18 and ends with her son joining up at the outbreak of this war. It was therefore very moving and somewhat harrowing for those who had lost husbands and sons here. But it was splendidly done and quite unique in its way. Terrance Feltham designed the set. John Sterricker is to be congratulated on the whole thing.
Franklin Gimson offers the opinion, in his diary entry for this day, that church service is seen more as 'some form of entertainment' than 'a species of worship'
Whitsunday - Martin | Short.
Softball - Dominions v. Scotland (Cigs. for all players)
C.S.H. (Jenner/Heath)
ART EXHIBITION (SS)
Issue of 6 ozs. jam (Marmalade & IXL)
Eggs 65 sen., bananas 9 sen.
All men no parcels went up hill - tin each
At the beginning of this camp I found three of these stiff backed record books and three paper backed issue and receipt books lying about near the godowns along the road. Two of the paper backed books I gave away (one to Tim when he started to learn Russian) and Yvonne used one of the stiff backed books for keeping the Baby Clinic records in the early days. The front portion of this book is occupied with recipes which she wrote in the early days of this camp – the days when our minds were incessantly occupied with thoughts of food. We hope they will come in useful some day!