NEW COAT FOR MASCOT
Official Correspondent with N.Z.E.F.
GIFT MADE FOR "BORAX"
Aldershot, Aug. 6. "Borax," unofficial mascot of the Wellington Rifle Battalion, was avfey from his base on a 100-mile route march when he heard over the air from the B.B.C. that the girls at the Hutt Valley High School are,making him^a coat. With adfnixable -tact* he • refraihetl from menticming that he has a coat already. No doubt he felt' that when one has worn the same coat through the autumn of the Southern Hemisphere to the threshold of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, he is entitled to another. Although he is enjoying English life as well as.any of us, "Borax" is no longer quite the star attraction he was on the transport. There are now other mascots, an international company of them, although "Borax" is the senior, which counts for rnueh in the Army, and has come the farthest. The West Australian wallaby that lives with the South Island rifle battalion was acquired in Perth, and the A.S.C.'s monkeys came from Sierra Leone.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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175NEW COAT FOR MASCOT Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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