A chiropodist, practising in the West End of London, disclosed the astonishing fact to a military tribunal, to which he appealed for exemption, that he was making over £30,000 a year from his business. He said he had 180 annual subscribers, who formerly subscribed three guineas a week t and some of his patients- paid four guineas a week. ~ "Sling Camp is well named, remarked Lance-Corporal John Baxter, returned soldier, in the course of . an interesting resume he gave while making his acknowledgments at the public welcome-home he received at Seaward Downs, Southland, last week "They slinc all the conceit out of a fellow there quick and lively. I had 'Sling this 1 and 'Sling that for six weeks, the neriod of our training there; and in that time I red" cetl } vel ?l»t front 14st -lb to3lb. Nevertheless, the 'slinking' "turns a man. out as fit as a fiddle."
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16426, 21 January 1919, Page 5
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150Untitled Press, Volume LV, Issue 16426, 21 January 1919, Page 5
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