A SIGHT FOR THE PRINCE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 179, 2 June 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

A SIGHT FOR THE PRINCE.

NEW ZEALANDERS AS NATURE I .MADE THEM. AN UNEXPECTED INSPECTION. i UNIQUE INTRODUCTION TO I ROYALTY. j In a letter received this week from : a Wanganui "non-com." with the N.%. Rille Brigade, written from — I well--somewhere on active service—- ' tJ'.o following very amusing incident , is related:

Yesterday the boys were al! inurehcil down to the sanitary quarters. every man taking -ill his belongings. i lie then stripped, and all his clothes v.ere put into a closed room and. : fumigated. Each man wuj given a | bucket of liot water, well saturated | with disinfectant, and had to thor- | oughly wash himself. It was great! For the iirst time for some time 1 ! fell, really clean. I should like them i to have a fumigating parade very I »:jen. But the funniest thins abor. 1 ;it was this: We had just eome back : I'rcm our wash, had drawn our kit.-. from tho liunigator, and were jus! ' beginning to dress when the Captain . called us to attention. I just had on a shirt —quite a number were stark naked--and we had to stand like

that, while the Prinee of Wales inspected us. There was a big staff with him—General God'.ey, etc. —and they simply had to laugh as they passed along at the spectacle we pre-r-'mtod. Rather peculiar eireumt.tancc under which to see the Prince for the iirst time, eh? I shall never fOl7.Pt my introduction to Royalty.