The orderly officer entered the messroom and asked the soldiers dining there if there were any complaints. There were. One young recruit sprang up and complained that he’d found a cigarette-end on the edge of his din-ner-plate. “Good heavens, man!" exclaimed the officer. “What do you expect—a packet of twenty?”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1940, Page 7
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