Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages
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9.30 a.m. Outdoor roll-call
Ox tongue for pm meal
Workers received "back pay" cigarettes
Birth - to Eileen Thirlwell, a daughter (Lydia Elizabeth) (& J Veriga)
((Barbara Anslow: Re The diary entry re Veriga and Eileen Thirwell. She was known to us as Aileen not Eileen. I think they married. Lydia was their child.))
((MacNider cleary writes "J Veriga", but the initial should be "V".))
Death - Mrs Florence Eileen Hyde (40)
Birth - to Mr & Mrs C Reddish, a daughter (Veronica Ann)
For sale - 1 x 5lb tin jam (light plum) Y500!
Jenner
Pearson
1st crop of s.p. ((probably "sweet potatoes")) for Camp from "Pumpkin" Hill
One cigarette & one box of matches - 23 sen
Med ex - wt 133lb, bp 110
Issue of oil & sugar
Death Mr Walter Pryde (57), PWD ((Public Works Dept.))
"Jap authorities determined to stop any trading except between internees within the Camps"
2 Canadian Red Cross Society parcels distributed (937 parcels - 8 parcels in each)
Death - Mrs Winifred Evelyn Dabelstein (39) (TB) (at T.B. Sanatorium)
Issue of one more Canadian parcel
p.m. meal - fried white bait, sprats and red mullet
No more newspaper for Camp.
Camp "chicken" raffle (1921 tickets: Y25 sen each) won by Miss CS Rawlings (Bl. 4) drawn by Adrian Fortescue in presence of J.A. Stericker, in Central Social Hall.
((I only see Miss EM Rawlings on John Black's list, so not sure if Eric made a mistake here?))
2.30pm "Call It a Day" by Dodie Smith (p. by W.H.E. Colledge - Nina Valentine, Richard Mills, Norah Witchall, Eric Kennard, Kathleen Davis, Kristine Thoresen, Evelyn Wyllie, Eve Grey, John Stericker, Joan Challinor, Jim Moodie, M.M. Mather, Anneka Offenburg, Ray Mabb, Stella Bander) (Ian Heath at the piano.)
Workers cigs issued
