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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2522, 24 July 1915, Page 4

A Giristehurch soldier, in a letter to his mother, expresses appreciation of cako, sweets, ami chocolato and socks received at Gallipoli on May 13. "Tlio cako and sweets," he ■ says, "wore much better arriving now than if they had como soonsr, as, wo woro just ready for something of that kind. Wo get as much food as wo can eat hore, and enjoy it better because wo have to cook it ourselves. Yon would latigh if yon saw the different ways wo liavo of doing up tlio hard biscuits." Dcscrib- - ing some of his experiences, lie states that on 0110 occasion he was engaged for two days helping along an English soldier who had sustained a sprained ankle. Ho and tlio others with him lost .themselves, and wore wandering back towards the firing lino. Whe:i rain came on, they drew in under a tree at about ,1 a.m., and slept with their backs to it until daylight. The New Zcalander then saw that the disabled man whs pronsi'ly 'attended 10) ami afuvAViU'tj? esatclsp it?,