Yes it was some night Ted??, also in Hong Kong visiting ships were swarmed with local tailors selling their wares including made to measure suits,some good some bad.? I was measured up for a civilian suit the first day there, he came back the second day for me to finalize the measurements and brought me back the new suit the third day all for less than ten pounds.

Well we arrived back in Australia and I went on leave to Adelaide and was walking down Rundle street which is the main shopping street there, when a lady tapped me on my shoulder and said Son your pants are coming apart at the back, and sure enough my suit was coming apart so had to hail a taxi and back to my Uncle's house to change.

I should add that the next time I was in Hong Kong on another ship, we had a tailor live on board the whole ten months we were in the Far East and Japan and Korea and I had some excellant tailor made clothes made on board. Mauri