Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 154
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[Page 154]
My journal Part VI
Thursday Oct 29 – 1914 The Australian mail (to Sydney) closed at 5 pm yesterday - I got mine all away in safety & heaved a sigh of relief - I hope every bit of it will reach its destination in safety - I was ashore Wednesday aftn - seeing to the above & had just finished when a pleasing spectacle presented itself opposite the P. Office - Half our men were ashore on liberty till 5 pm - The wardroom cook it seems was vy drunk & was trying to appropriate a horse & trap & behaving in a disorderly manner when he was promptly collared by the civil authorities in the form of a white officer assisted by 2 Fijian policemen & I saw the cook - vy gone in the knees – being assisted to a police cell to sleep off & then explain to the PM his lapse from sobriety & dignity - We all hope he'll get imprisonment for life & so rid society of an infernally bad cook - He must send up the mortality bill whenever he cooks we are certain – I ought to have mentioned that prior to this -