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accident woman run over ; two bike smashes : one into a man : other into a bint carrying a baby : not hurt : came home : dinner : wrote : tea : Reg & I [indecipherable] into the Kursaal : much the same as last week : had a good old laugh : home : Tom got his blanket pinched & slept with me :
Sunday March 5th
Cloudy close day : up at 6.45 am : breakfast : I was m.o. & showed the Q.M. what was given us for breakfast (oily water) & he went pop on the cooks : gave us butter & jam instead : fell in 7.45 am & marched to our beat : lollies today : plenty of officers about they are not setting much of an example to us : flash women smoking etc : funny kid caught smoking by his mother supposed to be selling tickets : home : dinner : passed away the afternoon writing & reading : tea : Nepean & myself went to Church : sat next to a nice nurse : had no book so looked on : quoice kateera : close night I had my shorts on : service very good : bed : (lost chord)
Monday March 6th
foggy morning : hot day : up at 6.45 am : breakfast : Sgt Cook put in "boob" caught selling tucker : fell in 7.45 am & marched to beat : draughts : monkey can-can : came home : fresh piquets came in but our batt was kept on : dinner : fell in 2.30 pm & allotted fresh beats. My mates got 6.30 pm till 11.30 pm. I am on 11.15 pm till 4.0 am & I think it is down the wazza so there will be some fun : shifted into a marquee : 20 on this shift : tea : wrote till fall in time : fell in 11.45 am & marched to our beat the wazza.
Tuesday March 7th
hot day : raided native & french brothels : 11 arrests : nearly all in bed : fun galore raiding & searching the houses : officer stopped one with his revolver : what some