TRANSPORT MENUS.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 August 1919, Page 5

TRANSPORT MENUS.

“1914 LIVER,” Grumbling about the quality of the‘ food has been common on most of the troop shitts that have recently ar-l rived at this port. The Matatua is no Gliception. According to our inform-I ants there was an impressive ceremony er a recent morning when four hund—| red men refused to eat their breakfast, { which they characterised as “1914fi liver.” The men played the .“Dead[ March in Saul” and solemnly consign-‘L ed it to the deep. This is very funny,l but it would not be funny to the men! who went breakfastlesg and landedfi ravenous on our shores, when a ship-1 ping company is paid £lB a head for. their food and passage. It is afiirm-’i ed that on an earlier trip, the ambu—i lance transport Marama, _the tea wasj made of salt water, and so had was it! on the Waimana that the men brought; some samples of it ashore to be ex-; amined‘ The soldiers who came the Marama stated that part of the} voyage there was no vegetables, and the men came out in boils from this, reason. It was noticed by some of; the men and mentioned in private conversatiou that part of the food (the: good food they used) on one ship? came out -of boxes marked with the! Red Cross mark of the Auckland Par! triotic Society. This, the critic‘ thought, -should be made the subject‘ cf official inquil'y.——AuCkland Star. 4