AT THE FRONT, FISHING

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 24 February 1916, Page 3

AT THE FRONT, FISHING

The writer of a recent book on the trenches, tells a" story which shows the extraordinary determination of Mr "Atkins" to get sport somehow on. active service. One day he discovered a "Tommy " patiently fishing in the dirty water of a huge cavity formed by the shell of a42 centimeter gun. On enquiring what on earth the fisherman expected to catch, he was received with the mild request of Mr Asquith that he should " wait and see." The result of his waiting was that he saw the fisherman presently succeed in landing a fish of verj considerable size. Not until then did that worthy consent to be disturbed so far as to explain that being off duty the previous day, he had taken a net to the river and brought back all the fish he could catch to stock the fish ponds in the trenches.