CAMP NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2662, 6 January 1916, Page 7

CAMP NEWS

GOVERNOR TO REVIEW THE . NINTH WHITE-WASHING THE LAST POST His Excellency the Governor will review the Ninth iloinforcements at Trentham at 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon. After the review, Colonel Gibbon, C.G.S., will address the men. The troojis entrain at Trentham for tho city tho following morning, and will march through the Wellington streets in the afternoon. Tho Ninth'are regarded as a very fit body of mon, and despite the interruptions, in training caused by the holidays, are considered equal to any of the reinforcements which have preceded them. THE LAST POST. The raw recruit has many tricks worked off against him, and until he becomes seized with _the details of camp routine, he must grin with the jokers. Recently a young soldier who considered that he had passed the rookie stage and was entitled to put on. airs, found himself detailed for fatigue duties. And his sergeant, with a serious countenance, gave him a bucket of whitewash and a brush, and ordered him to go out and whitewash the last post. In all innocence the recruit set off, all unaware of the smothered merriment behind him. He had actually begun to run his eye along the line of fences when the full strength of the practical joke struck him, and he realised that it was impossible to whitewash a buglecall, . ADOPTINC SOLDIER'S PHRASES. There are indications that the civilian population is beginning to bring into general use some of the words of command and phrases used by soldiers in our camps. One of these is the order, "Carry on," whicli is used to indicate an officer's desire that the men under his command shall continue the work in training they are engaged in. This phrase is used a. good deal by soldiers when in the city, as. for instance, when a tram packed with khaki men waits too long at a stopping-place. Than dozens of voices may he heard urging the driver to carry on. Like many of tho expressive idioms of the English tongue, the phrase comes originally from the seaj probably it is a product of the old clipper-ship days, when the captain "carried on with full press of canvas, in spite of wind and sea.