NEW ZEALAND NAMES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NAMES

Valleys had been given New Zealand names and if the Germans advanced, they would find on notice boards “Kiwi Valley,” “Paekakariki Hill,” “Khyber Pass” and other names, according to the district from which the units were drawn in the Dominion. Already they had made acquaintance with the new Nazi war device “shaving sticks,” which are designed on similar lines to the thermos in the Western Desert. These have been found scattered around lines and camp areas and arc now treated with healthy respect. When the party were in Athens, on their return journey, they met two New Zealanders who had been engaged in alluvial gold mining in Western Macedonia —Messrs Brown, of Invercargill and Tyson, of Dunedin. They were fortunate to escape the oncoming Germans and had heard that New Zealand troops were in Greece and were anxious to meet them, but could not identify them because they were not wearing the customary peaked hat. Mr Brown proudly displayed a tattoo mark which had been made in Cairo when he was serving with the New Zealand forces in the last war. These men had seen the smoke of German artillery as they made their way to safety. Mr Brown has a brother in the signallers.