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Dec 16th Wed.
No Fatigue Duty today. A concert on the Promenade deck tonight. Programme of the sports to be held on Saturday afternoon is up on orders. Boxing, Fencing, Crickets, Egg & Spoon, Potatoe race, Wheel Barrel Race, Chalking the Line.
Dec 17th Thu.
No water to wash ourselves with this moring.
M.O. & I scrubbing down stairs. Lecture 4 o'clock.
A Free and Easy concert held by the Tasmanian Unit on deck. Good musical talents amongst them. The chairman had an amusing manner of intimating the various items. He intimated the name of the song, the singer's name and also the nick name he is known by amongst his mates. Instances of the humerous nick names were, the "Fatigue Dodger", the "Greasy Corporal" etc.
Dec. 18th Fri. Phy D. 7 am.
We are having beautiful weather just now.
A lantern lecture was to be held tonight. Owing to the failure of the apperatus to work the lecture was posponed.
Distance travelled today 290 miles.
Dec 19th Sat.
Large numbers of "flying fish" are flying about. They look very pretty.
Travelled 270 miles today.
Dec 20th Sun.
Divine Service 11 am.
Enjoyed the service very well.