Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 138
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that influences their ideas of what is likely to happen but I should fancy that we'll stay indefinitely for the present - J'y suis J'y reste - I'm all for what does happen to happen - Anyway I'm likely to stop for I pointed out to Stoker that they might go anywhere & I am the naval M.O. in charge of the Submarine flotilla & he agreed with me - .
Thousands of men are wanted for jobs of work right thro the Empire just now & I think the vy last thing any man should do is to chuck a war job however humble it may be - Its surely all a part of a vast whole -
Saty Oct 24 - The weather is superb & the country looks very well - The surf booms away on the barrier reef & in the still hours of early morning sounds like thunder - The coast line facing red roofed Suva is high land peaked so as to resemble the teeth of a huge saw - One eminence is called The thumb - It looks singularly like one - This jagged peaked land going up inland to 3 - 4000 feet produces each morng & eveng a vy fine effect - Sunsets are not so gorgeous in these parts as