New Zealand Girls Pretty
In a letter published in liis home town paper an American describes spending nine months "on a stealing ing island jungle" with his Soabee Battalion, during which time the battalion saw only four white women—Mrs Roosevelt and three entertainers. One of the danccrs invited some of tlie men up on to the stage to do the rlnimba, hula and boomps-a-daisy. Their eagerness and enthusiasm could well be imagined, says the American, as could their feelings Avhen, while on rest leave, they met "the pretty New Zealand girls."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 2, 25 August 1944, Page 7
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91New Zealand Girls Pretty Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 2, 25 August 1944, Page 7
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