Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 182
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[Page 182]
Too much drinking here in certain sets - Young, nice chaps, with not much ballast get encouraged to drink & they cant stand it & you see the result both at the mess table & in the card room & then you'll see it in their jobs of work & next thing is they'll lose their billets - All we can do is by example – talking seems worse than useless -
Willis of Malvern – Glenferrie Rd - opposite Parkinson's house is on the Aorangi as doctor - Nice young chap - We're going up to the Hosp this aftn together - A sailor on AE2 won our sweep - Not much more to note save that the Captain (Moore) wants to leave - He is fed up he tells me - It's whisky & fat & want of exercise & then liver & toxins & irritability - I tell him Blue Pill is best & total abstinence but I'm regarded as a 'Nark' - However I'm not fed up - I'm still going strong & very keen on my job & in first class condition & thin -