SOME OF THE CANTERBURY MEN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8280, 27 October 1915, Page 4

SOME OF THE CANTERBURY MEN.

DCNEDIN, October 26. Several peopio , lroni Clmstchurch who came hy tlie iirst express arrivedhere practically at the same time as Uic loiua made fast at the wharf. Compared with the men wiio disembarked at i Lyttelton from the Willochra a few weeks ago, the men on the 'J'oiua soeraod hale and hearty. Comparatively few sliowed signs ot: wounds. Among the iirst of, the Canterbury men spoken' to was Captain Hardy, a. son oi the Hon. C. A. C. Hardy, who came to Duncdin to meet him. Captain Hardy i,s greatly disappointed at having been invalided before ho, had an opportunity, to got to (iallipoli. Sergeant Seed, of the- Main J3pdy, a son of Mr AY. H. Seed, of Petersen and Co., Chris tchurch, was wounded through the calf of the right leg. He was met by his lather, who presented him with the bullet that had caused tho wound, silver-plated and mountod. ' ' Sergeant Vincont,, who, before enlisting, was with Messrs Smithson and. Mosloy, Christehurch, has been invalided owing to a nervous breakdown. He also was mot by his parents. Regarding the footl on tho Tofiia, I the men had no complaints to ■ make i They concur rod that, as compared with, trench fare meal-time on tho ''Tofuu, was like diniug at a first-cliiss hotel. , Many, pi the returned men went, 1 through the whole of the Dardanelles campaign, from the day of tho laridingr in .April. They say that their /comrades on the Peninsula are showing signs of becoming stale, and should hegiven" a spell from the trenches. Several of the returned 1 soldiers, werespoken to on the subject of recruiting, and they were unanimous in support 'of the idea that men who enlist should be put into- camp as soon as possible: Some of the men" went the length ' ofsaying that even when tho Main Body 1 was being formed, the present system of recruiting had proved ineffective and unsatisfactory.