TRENTBAM CAMP

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 247, 6 July 1918, Page 8

TRENTBAM CAMP

1 Sir—ln regard to a statement in al < paragraph in to-day's issue, made by •■ Chaplain T. P. Taylor, in which he states that Trcutham Camp is the dirtiest, wettest, and coldest place in New Zealand, surely the chaplain does nob. J mean this, or is this just one of his - usual practical jokes that he is in the ( habit of passing on to us, with the usual t grain of salt, and should not be allowed 1 to pass, as such remarks passed, moro ■ so from a chaplain in camp, are sure to 1 cause a wrong impression with the general public, who may not have had the . opportunity of visiting Trcntham Camp. Of course, one will find, as in all places, 1 tho usual growl; but I may say that I ' have been in camp now for three years, 1 and I must speak, as a private, as to > how I find it. During the whole time I have been here I have not had a days 3 sickness, or been under the doctors care for any illness, as my sick roster 3 will show'. Of course, I grant lam an • exception; but, then, if one wants to be sick, he will be sick; but I think tha , chaplain, in his remarks, is overstepping t the facts; Of course, tho present rain and coldness are an exception; and I am , sure there aro ninny in New Zealand r wha would only be too glad to bo about - Trentham at the present time. -his afternoon has been without rain, and 1 . pas«*d up and down a few of the main - roads, and no better roads could one b find-free from all water, and mute dry. . But, certainly, if one wishes to find mud, one has only to go off the road, and you will find more than plenty; but I can say for sure that the chaplain in Ms visitation around camp and over all the different hospitals need not soil or wet his feet. He is a sporting parson, and a genial person at all times. lam willin? to take him on to prove my assertion. Speaking generally, I think on 9 the whole that-no one, in common fair--1 ness, enn say what Chaplain Taylor has said, ns the roads and condition of 8 thiiu's here are much better than can bo 1 found in any of the four large cities of ? New Zealand; as take, for instance, Wel- ' lington. I would far rather 1)0 here in camp than cross tho different crossings " there in wet weather. Tho crossings ? herj are not to be oompared to the dirty 3 crossings in town, and for "coldest and Tcttest"—well, I come from down south. I know which I prefer—l am, etc., 1 CANNES. l .