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Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1916, Page 2

In a letter received this week from a Wanganui "non-com." with the N.Z. "Rifle i Brigade, written from —well — somewhere on active service—the following very amusing incident is related: —Yesterday the boys were, all marched down to the sanitary quarters, every man taking all his belongings. He then stripped, and all his clothes were put into a closed room and fumigated. Each man was given a bucket of hot water, well saturated with disinfectant, and had to thoroughly wash himself. It was great! For the first time for some time I felt really clean, I should like them to have a fumigating parade very often. Eut the funniest think about it was this. We had just come back from our wash, had drawn our kits from the fumigator, and were just beginning to dress when the Captain called us to attention; I just had on a shirt—quite a ■number were stark naked—and wc had to stand like., that while the Prince of Wales inspected us. There was a big staff with him —General Ciodley, etc. — and they simply had to laugh as they passed along at the spectacle we presented. Rather ■ peculiar circumstances under which to see the Prince for the firs't time, eh? I shall never forget my introduction to Royalty. KARBOL—one part to 50 parts ,ot water—the best disinfectant. Sykes, Chemist.