FROM PALESTINE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 41, 22 January 1943, Page 5

FROM PALESTINE

LIFE IN EASTERN HOSPITAL TPR. DES FOG ARTY'S LETTER Writing a Whakatane friend in a letter dated. November 20, Tpr. Des Fogarty formerly of Whakatane, states that his trip to a Palestine hospital occupied a month from Libya owing to mishaps in the air sex* vice. He says: I was in hospital live weeks. What' a luxury, sheets on the beds and the. lirst fresh food I have seen for four months. But my share of it all was very little. The Sisters and V.A.D.'s are doing a fine, job in a dysontry ward which is a test for anyone. Everyone was so obliging and kind. This was the lirst time L have been in a hospital in my life it made me a little home sick at times. I came out of hospital ami was sent to a convalescent camp in Palestine —it. is on the sea would be very nice, in summer. Now the rainy season is on and living in tents conditions are not the best. I have not been out on leave, and. as we are some distance from the towns I am not keen: on travelling any distance. Around the. camp is a small Jewish settlement and orange groves. The oranges arc ripening. What n show! Far as ones yes can see!, dark green trees with goldexi fruit. We. cat oraxiges and grape fruit by the dozen. Just help ones-self. No market for them over here. Fed to the stock or dug in to the soil. Things are very hard over here, rationing is terrible and the price of food well —Gd for an egg, only one a week —beef sausages 2/3 a lb and very poor quality. Sugar is a great luxury even bread is rationed about a lb per person a day. Wages for a working man (a laboxxrer) is Kits. It must be a problem making do.