IN GREAT FETTLE
OUR TROOPS IN EGYPT. NEW ZEALAND OFFICER BROADCASTS. Two recorded talks were broadcast last night by Daventry. dealing with the journey of the Australian and New Zealand troops to Egypt, and the conditions in the camps provided for the men. The New Zealander was described as “a major, who before the war was a lawyer in Wellington." Listeners concluded that the speaker was Major C. A. L. Treadwell, 0.8. E. The New Zealander dealt with the last stage of the journey, and the crossing of the arid desert of Egypt. The welcome at the Cairo railway station by a pipe band from a Scottish battalion made many of the New Zealanders fell like home, he said. English and Scottish units of the British Army then led Il ie troops to their camp. This site, which a few -weeks before had been a vast area of sand with hardly any sign of vegetation, had been converted into a great wood and canvas city.
The speaker paid a tribute to the unit of the Royal Engineers responsible for the splendid layout of the carnp and the excellence of the sanitary and other arrangements. The men wore all in great fettle, he added.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 6
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