MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 304, 26 December 1939, Page 9

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

TRADITIONAL FEAST.

THE TROOPS FARE WELL

GREAT DAT AT THE FORT.

Christmas Day in the Army!

Lamb, ham and roact chickon . . green pea«, new potatoes and other vegetables ... plum duff and other sweets ... nuts, fruit, confectionery, tea. cordials and Tbeer. Thie was the Ohris-tmas dinner to which 150 men of all ranks who had to "be on duty at the North Head artillery camp eat dow.n to yesterday, with tlie Battery Commander, Major H. G. Wilding, D.5.0., at the head of the table. It was the grand climax of an effort in which contributions had been made bv city firms, the camp cooks had worked overtime, and a camp committee, under Lieutenant K. Mills and Sergeant S. Oatchpole, had decorated the mess room in traditional style, and tvped out menus. Kanlc waft discarded, and the party ■became one happy family whose one idea was to eat. drink and be merry. And they did it in real arinv fashion, after having started oil with the loyal The Battery Commander wished the men the compliments of the season, and Colonel X. \V. Mel). Weir dropped in for a visit and congratulated the troops on their work. Presentations were made to the camp cooks, and then the men gathered round tlte piano and the meeting dissolved into harmony. Earlier in the day each man of the camp had awakened to lind beside his cot a gift of cigarettes and toffee from Father Christmas, who had been presented with a '"chit" for the occasion I>y the Auckland Metropolitan Patriotic Committee.