STATE FISH SHOP

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2543, 18 August 1915, Page 5

STATE FISH SHOP

• ■ ■ ■ t-4 r— By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrizM (Rec. August 17, 11.15.p.m.) Sydney, August 17. ! A State fish sliop, for tho salei of the" takings by the State trawlers, lias been, opened iu Oxford Street. Mr. Q. Black (Minister of Agriculture), in a white apron, perfomed the opening coromony, and sola the first basket to the Lord Mayor for £10. The Minister announced that it was the Government's intention to build (locally) several more trawlers. Writing from the trenches at Gabai Tope on Juno 15, Private James Welch, son of Mrs. A. D. Welch, of Wellington, states that people at - home cannot have the slightest idea of what a general attack means and the diu it creates. "The other niglit there was an attack made by our fellows on the rider# above us. I have never hoard such a din in all ray life. Wimi with tk» crackle of rillee, the boom of b'S guns, and. tile row made by tho trench mortars and hand bombs, you can guess that wo did not got much sleep that night. You would be surprised to sea liow cosy wo aro in our dug-outs, so' cosy that. 1 think old-fashioned things Hke houses will be quite a thing of. the past when wc get back. We ;reb about fifty cigarettes a week issued to us, and pretty good ones, too. As regards food, I was greatly surprised at tho quality and quantity of it. One tin of jam' a day is issued for four men, and it is good English jam at that—sometimes strawberry. . . Wo.got plenty of Maconachie's tinned Army rations, and. sometimes fresh meat, potatoes, - and onions. Wo mako all manuor of fancy jdishas such as rissoles and "fritters for ►-a,, fij-.elsa fcjgoodold; &tow,