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Monday 5th Oct.
Eight Hour Day quite a decent little procession through the streets of W. With the usual luck hanging in my wake I was on picket duty & had to be satisfied with seeing the last half of the pageant. Skits, equalling anything done up by the students, took off the non-coms and the officers & the A.M.C.
What we left our Happy Home for, by some of the navy men, consisted of a cross draped with bully beef & biscuits; Satan frightened hell out of the niggers with his fiery pitchfork & skull; Chidley was there also; Skits on the rum; on the jam, were of the highest order & most laughable. One would have thought that that, we were back in the 'old dart' again.
Tuesday 6th Oct
Went for a march into the "big bush" It was 115° on the march to Soma, & I estimated is at about 315° today. The country is very level, covered with the cocoanut & ruber plantations of the New Guinea Company. The rubber tree is very much like the