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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15772, 13 December 1916, Page 12

An interesting letter has been received from the front by a resident ot Lower Hutt, Corporai Harry Tapping. The writer, who has lost a foot, speaks cheerily of his misfortune, and describe» himself as "badly bent, but not brokeD, having lost a blade off his propeller," otherwise having left one of his feet in France as a souvenir. "You know," he writes, i4 I was always rJi awkward fellow, and what should I do but push in'front of a 'Sausage Man's' high explosive, with the result that I shall, from now henceforward, for ever and ever .require only one boot." This he considers will be a saving in cash and labour, as he will have only one boot to buy and only ono to clean. The yoong soldier, who writes by proxy from England, also received wounds in the arm, the bone in the left arm having been shattered. His cheery optimism is but another testimony to the excellent spirit of our fighters. Ihe wounded man ir- due back iu New Zealand shortly.