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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 16 October 1915, Page 5

Instructions have been cabluvl by the Defence Minister to .Colon 3l Rho'it?; to make special inquiries in Egypt into the allegations of the noade'l.'ery ~f letters and pariels to our men at the front in Gallipoli, and especially into the charges that large quantities of goods are being stolen or otherwise lost in transit. Mr Allen states tfaat special care was to be taken to see that the Christmas gifts sent forward in the transports recently should reach the men for whom they were intended. There were some 600 tons of these packages and the quartermaster who /had sailed with the ship was required io give a receipt for them. When the main body were on their way f™ Alexandria to Cairo they 'ost .f. 2000 worth of stuff, in spite of the fact that ■a guard was put on the luggag?.. Britannia gave a cheer or two j When' Wellington won Waterloo. ♦Britannia might ha-ve hid ;'goo4 night." \ "'< When winter coughs! and colds are rife, And each is battling'ior his life, Wise Britons make the victory sure With bottles of Woods' Great Pepper mint Cure." v ■-•*-■