Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 142
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& some dropping beer bottles on the pavement – smash finish - Several of them fell off the pier into the harbor & had to be fished out – sobered - The fleet was enjoying its 'ruddy' self I can tell you - The pubs did a roaring trade - Evy - place was chock a block & beer in Suva ran low - The whole show was very funny - Of course pickets were out to look after the men - I saw one chap quite oblivious to eveythg including the fleet & gently tended by two native police till he got better -
I saw an officer of the pickets courting a nice young girl while his men drank & roared - The officers have a vy blind eye on these occasions - I saw another officer with spots of blood all over his white jacket & he informed us that a stoker was going to smash his (the officer's) buddy nose but he smashed the stoker & got splashed doing so -