It is the custom (savs "Woomera" in the Australasian) for' officers at the training camps to go through the lines at a certain hour of the (lav and ask the men if they have any complaints to make. Wlien an olliccr, looking in at a tent floor at one of the Victorian camps recently, put the question, "Any complaints?" one young recruit, who had only been a day or two in camp, replied, 'Tfes, sir. The meat in the stew was so tough this morning that I couldn't cut it with my knife—it was as tough as leather." "Well, well, you'll never make a soldier," replied tile offi\m. ," You haven't enough resource. Why m the world, man, didn't you strop your knife on the meat?"
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1915, Page 5
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125Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1915, Page 5
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