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handing our embarkation cards at gangway.
Shewn our quarters which were in No. 4 Troop Deck. At 8 p.m. [a.m. ?] the gangway was pulled up & the people all out on wharf but I failed to see any of my people.
Breakfast at about 8.15 & we anchored in harbour off Bradleys Head where numerous craft visited us during the day laden with with sightseers.
At 3 p.m. we pushed off again & about 4 launches accompanied us to Heads. The cock a doodle doos were very deafening at some periods.
Outside we found the sea very calm.
Sam tried to pick up his people at Watsons Wa Bay but cannot say with what success. When settled down to our surroundings at a bit we had a look round.
The troop decks are one below the main deck & each man eats dresses & practically lives in same space as he sleeps in. Hammocks are used for sleeping purposes.
No smoking is allowed between decks.
ship is fitted with wireless has about 3 hospitals and an insolation hospital which we had occasion to use on first day with case of measles. There were about 1500 troops aboard & the troop Decks are slept cut up into messes of 14 men each.
Also there is a canteen which cigarettes at 3 packets for 6d.
Have 2 Red Cross flags