NEVER HAVE, SO' MANY ACHIEVED SO LITTLE IN SO LONG A TIME

Papakura Parade, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1 March 1944, Page 5

NEVER HAVE, SO' MANY ACHIEVED SO LITTLE IN SO LONG A TIME

An edict issues forth - All ranks .attention’ On 19 Feb at owe- eight- five- owe hours It is th f authorities ’ expressed intention ~z T’immor tai is eon film these charms of ours, p ■ ' ' 7 • All Officers and WaaCs will wear suits, glamour, All Other flanks BP and Caps J’S, The whole will make a Photo, panorama, • ■•That only. Time can possibly redress* The purpose is to spur our martial paces Some.say bur contribution’s growing littler--To make a secret weapon of our faces And senn i t j et-propelled to frighten Hitler*

The troops march on, the whole Camp staff assembles— Some'never seen except when drawing pay—•'.The very atmosphere with tension trembles-** But why. this unaccountable delay? Time Marches. On, nd NOT a thing transpires., 'The Future steadily becomes the Past... In heavy garb the multitude perspires. Then sees , the missins camera-man — a’t las t ? - When all have ta’en their seats, incl the Band, With camera set in spite of film austerity. There, comes an order hard to understand,, ’’The Photo’s off J ” Alas for poor Posterity??

The. Editor, Papakura Parade* ' ", ' Sir, 'lf my follicular desuetude is regarded as newsworthy by your reporting Staff, then you have my permission to air the topic as much as you like-' but I do take strong exception to having my name (a nd my hair J.

linked with .those of tha t vy er able old j elopy, Staf f lies*: No-one free from the stigma congenital mental insufficiSE. could long keep his head up with such a weatherbeaten cl mill stone around his neck, (Sgd) John Maconie. h