A "LONELY" ANZAC

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3001, 12 February 1917, Page 4

A "LONELY" ANZAC

— -« ~ ■. 1345 LETTERS IN THREE DAYS. Corporal Tom Goodhead, postman for a, certaiu Australian battalion "Somewhere in France," should not incur a reprimand from superior officers' for communicating' with the Press. He had too good a story to toll to let it be wasted. . "Just a note," he says, "to tell you what you people on the Sydney "Sun' have clone to one of our hoys. Some time ago in your paper you inserted a request that 'some miss, or other would write to Private "\V. P. P. Thuning, as he had very little news from Australia. • .'..-. "Well! Tliis request has certainly been granted., If Private W.P.P.T. is given enough time off duty to read all the letters ho. has received, he won't bo finished till long after wo have bagged Billy. "The following is a three-da vs , tally from one Australian mail—with moro to cometFirst day 130 letters SeconcT day 1145 letters ' Third day .:....... 70 letters Total .:....... 1345 letters "Also, three packets on the third day. ■ - • . "So. you see; 'it pavs , to advertise. Tho joke on Private. AV.P.P.T. was not a bad one; but I got the rough end of it, as I have to handle all the battalion mail."