GOHOPHONE NEWS PRESENTS

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 13, 26 March 1944, Page 5

GOHOPHONE NEWS PRESENTS

. WITH ’the pride of -achievement seldom equalled in NEWS AGENCIES this unrivalled Service made all

other press pi ders look like ham footed hacks'; "Early in ths week Gone phone-, -fans were on/ ! the nun.’ At Is st the news was'through : all/ to be homo by June ,44, What a sparkle in the ggre I It was true, it waft Gone phone News, In a few days ■ the flash was a Kiwi Dogma., - and be damn’d to . /him who did not bel-

ieve. :::: THE . guy. who bet ten

bucks on Works being in Hecal until June 4$ was the sucker, and had to fumble for his bill fold. :i ; ” Bunny ” Spencer and Doug Comri g" ' saw . n ■ Mum ” on the wha'rf waving to them. After the first flush of enthusiasm comes • another flash ' \

from, the 'ti .' Maintains nee party will have to : remain to look after

roads,'. drainage-, electric lights and feany of -.other/service A dim view of this taken,, and before

long . thorough! .disere di .: :; ;4 5 ’.NEXT comes the discourageing hint that in going home does pot •.

mean we will not come back to. ' He cal*. Audit ’ does not mean that • : as soon as the boat hits the Wharf ', the -Manpower Committee will down ■ ■

there' on bended knee to askf or - Works personnel, ./ Whileit is \ true that in 7/orks/are the best ’, carpenters, plumbers, fitters., mechanics, electricians, drainage . experts, ■draughtsmen and surveyors • to say nothing of . the : engineers • that N.Z. can turn out. While ■4xll thi s is true’, the . Manpower is ■ probably totally unaware of their existence - even N.Z, as a whole is /

unaware of the welth of ability & talent in the Unit,. Sad indeed to

relate, but them it is , Of'

course some’ of our - personnel will . immediately set about rectifying the errerand utter darkness

in. which Manpower and country are lost* But', and here is the rub, the ' ARMY still has first say, and though on furlough, wo will still be in the ARMY;; We ; , are in for the. duration and twelve* months AFTER S ’

So, if we do not come "back -when

we get away - to Necal, -we will . most surely ‘go. (elsewhere. . .even to the Great . Chi na Wall ,whe r 9 •• George More ton lias sot ; his heart 0 Ma air a ,