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Cloudy, hot.
Rails for Gs garden.
Funk-holes being provisioned.
New scales of rations issued, oil 75% less, salt 50% less, but we are to have meat 2oz per day with a slight increase in veg. issue.
Oil, tea, salt & sugar issued.
Order re all Internees bowing on arrival of “rubbish” at outside roll-call cancelled.
New scale rations Cancelled 10th June Rice.16oz. Veg 10½oz. Meat 1¾ oz daily.
Oil. 3oz Salt 1¾oz . Beans 10½ oz every 10 days.
∴C
Swimming with Peggy, Gladys Johnson and Beryl Goldenberg.
Bridge with Rowell and Brown.
New ration scale on paper - meat once a week, cut in oil.
Banns - G.C.F. Crofton & G.T. Jex
Dow ("Impatience; anxiety") / Myhill ("Church & Kingdom")
New scale of rations announced
Overcast, showery, humid. Heavy rain early am.
Plunger.
Steve 100%.
Fixed mosq. net for Lido [?] friend & ground rice for Steve.
Oil to G.
(Rumours. Task force off Luzon 8 Bttleshps. 5 A/c Cs. 40 destroyers. Ocanawa [sic] finished. Singapore fallen. Tokyo heavily raided. Jap Govt resigned)
3 workers cigs.
Chopped wood for V & sat with C a little while.
∴C.
Apologetics at Veronica Willey's room in am.
("Two brothels in I.Q. for Formosans")
B.M. stuff dumped off lorry (3 sacks)
Maria Connolly had operation.
Worked in am.
Bridge against Smalley and Judah in afternoon.
C.A.meeting in evening.
No rations came in.
B.M. Wong tong Y95; bacon Y620/lb. Y75 each handed in for canteen
Fine, hot, cooler pm.
Odd jobs.
Trouble among Black-marketers.
Fixed Steve’s camp-bed.
(Rumours. Japs bomb Penang. Jap Emp. injured. Big US Task Force off Luzon).
∴Cx.
Temp. dropped.
Did spring-cleaning in our room, killed many cockroaches.
Mrs. Flaherty was beaten up, up the hill, and sent to hospital. Other Black Market people arrested.
'Radio'play "There's always Juliet" (R.W. Mills, Mrs. Mills, Fortescue, E.M. Gray)
Mrs. Flaherty taken to hosp. ( ((?shorthand)) )
Overcast, cool NE wind.
Over door frame.
Black-marketers still being interrogated. Mrs Flaherty to Hosp. due to a beating up she got. Broken wrist, nose & 2 ribs.
German lesson.
Rained pm.
∴G.
Mr. V. Seymour in trouble up the hill, and had to stand up there some time. His wife took food up to him.
Worked in am, then Peg & I played bridge against Mr W.J. and Mrs J. Fulker, we lost.
Some people had to go up hill for putting 'reunion soon' or something like that on their postcards.
B.M. round-up (apparently in ????((unclear)) with Govt:- owned egg white & egg yolk)
Outside roll call in the rain - not heavy.
More beatings. Smith ((don't know which one!)) to hospital today, and H. Vanthall has just been taken in ((presumably 'up hill'))
Rumour - official that we get no meat.
Played bridge with Dorothy, Mrs Hall and Mrs Shields.
Peg & I played Grace Darby and Wyllie.