THE STRICKEN TROOPSHIP
MOBS ABOUT THE FOOD. The Parliamentary Committee which inquired a few days ago into the circumstances of the epidemic on the troopship carrying (lie Fortieth Reinforcements to England, has presented its report to the Minister of Defence, and it will be made public in the course of a few days.
At the inquiry, there was evidence about the food on the ship being inadequate. Sir James Allen has had sent to him a letter from a soldier on the ship, a lnnce-corporal in rank, which deals with the question of the food on the ship. Following are extracts from the letter:— "Just finished, dinner—soup, meat, vegetables, and pudding. We have no complaints about the food, for it is of the best, though, of course, you will find some who would .always complain if they wore fed in hotel style." "The nurses are real Britons. It is wonderful how they work, and' they cheer the fellows up fio much better than a man."
"Towards the end of the voyage the bakers were all ill," and we could get no fresh bread. We had to buy fruit and other things from the canteen." Tlißj soldier adds that he left New Zealand weighing, list. 61b., and landed weighing 12-st. 101b.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 71, 18 December 1918, Page 4
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210THE STRICKEN TROOPSHIP Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 71, 18 December 1918, Page 4
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