4th April 1965

The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
P O Box 227 Central
Osaka Japan

Dear Mum Dad and Alan, 

Many thanks for your letter - have been busy over the quarter and other odds and ends which have cropped up.  Won 11/- on the pools being two 3rd prizes - perhaps it will really come up one day.  Last weekend took a trip in to Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.  Full of temples and things.  It was very cold and not too attractive.  Probably better later in the season but then the crowds are out and it is then equally disappointing.  But it was a day out and a change.  The girls colds have gone and the last coughs are clearing.  It was a bad season for them and I am pleased it is over as nights were pretty restless.  The weather is odd, it remaining cold long after it should do and the famed cherry blossom has yet to appear, but the garden is full of things just starting up and will be very beautiful as soon as the warmer air comes through.  Hope Alan's firm does not move him too soon, it would be a lot to start a 3rd home going in such a short space of time. 
Thank you for the news on K L rubber - not much good in the market just now and must wait to see just what the budget will bring forth.  The girls will be on holiday for Easter soon though we do not get a holiday ourselves, time soon goes round.  The pictures of the centenary were very good - I have paid the bills during the last week and they were quite large - I wonder what they were throughout the bank.

Cheerio for now and love from us all.  Peter.