28 Feb 1942, Harry Ching's wartime diary
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Promise of resumption of electricity service. Minimum four light points, for which deposit five yen required. We have twenty points, so much tearing out of sockets necessary. Finally apply late in February for eight lighting points only. $20 to have rest of twenty points put out of commission.
Gas man called to say service being resumed. Fuel increasingly hard to get so signed up for gas, but never materialised. Our electricity allowance too small and too expensive to permit of cooking. I devised means of by-passing meter with simple device quickly and easily removed.
Family to church and made acquaintance of a fine man, Pastor Johan Neilsen, formerly head of Norwegian Missions to Seamen in Shanghai. We see him often, and obtain much spiritual comfort from him.
