Page 8 Advertisements Column 3

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 6 October 1915, Page 8

j Writes Sapper Bond, formerly of the ’ literary staff on the Auckland Star, who left with the Fifths: “Some of the fellcws have been here in Egypt eight or ten weeks, and have not received a single letter. All the letters appears to go to t|he line first, and then get lost cr destroyed. [No parcels aire delivered. It is stated that packages and newspapers addresed to us are simply put into big bags and distributed in all hospitals. There is evidently a scandalous lot cf mismanagement somewhere, j I only get three letters and have not! got a single letter or anything else from any of you, but 1 know you must have written to me. It would have broken your heart to have seen cur disappointment when we arrived Iheke, and found no letters waiting for ns. I remember when I was in Auckland how people used to speak .of ‘the wonderful system’ that would ‘find a man even in the trenches.’ It appears as if there la no sysetm at all, because tie letters don’t 'reach us, let alon.) the poor devils in the trenches. T you only knew wjhat a great deal of ibasure a letter gives us, you would understand why I am upset abut it. Of course, I know that it would be pretty hard to wake up people in New Zealand, and for that 'reason it is not much use ray talking about other important matters that are being bungled out here. The people of New Zealand will realise some day that thousands of th e lives cf their best men ‘have been needlessly sacrificed as a result of this, inefficiency.” Not mo —Another “Desert Gold ’ ’ Tea Competition is being arranged. Many Cash Brizes, Keep on saving the Camels."