A SIGHT FOR THE PRINCE.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 June 1916, Page 2

A SIGHT FOR THE PRINCE.

NEW ZEAL ANDERS AS NATURE

MADE THEM.

AN" UNEXPECTED INSPECTION

UNIQUE INTRODUCTION TO

ROYALTY.

In a letter received this week from a "Vfanganui "non-com." with the N.Z. Rifle Brigade, written from—-well—. somewhere on active service— the following very amusing incident is related : — '

" Yesterday the boys were all marched down to the sanitary quarters, every , man taking all his belongings. He : then stripped, and all his clothes were put into a closed room and fumigated. Each man was given a bucket of hot' water, well saturated with disinfectant, and had to thoroughly was,h himself. It was great! For the first time for some time I felt really clean. I should like them to have a fumigating parade very often. "But the funniest thing about it was this: We had just come back from our wash, had drawn our kits from the fumigator, and were just beginning to dress when the Captain called us to attention. I just had on a shirt—quite a number were starknaked—and we had to stand like that while the Prince of Wales inspected us* There was a big staff with him— General Godley, etc. —and they simply had to laugh as they passed along at the spectacle we presented. Rather peculiar circumstances under which to see the Prince for the first time, eh? I shall aever forget my introduction to Royalty."