PRAISE FOR AIRMEN

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 75, 19 September 1941, Page 5

PRAISE FOR AIRMEN

CONDUCT IN CANADA

AMATEUR BED-MAKERS

Reports show that the men of the New Zealand armeft forces abroad have created a good impression, but the conduct of a party f of New Zealand airmen in Canada j so appealed to a resident of Ham- { 4iton, Ontario, that she has written to the Mayor of Auckland, Mr J. A. C. Allum, about it, says the Herald. This correspondent quotes an employee of a city hotel as saying that as a general rule soldiers were a -sgreat deal of worry and caused more work than civilians. "But the New Zealanders! Why, they are great if they are like the 26 we had the other week-end." This girl then went on to say that all these boys stripped their beds and folded ~ the linen carefully on a chair and

put all trash in the* waste baskets, instead of on the floor. The hotel maid was very much surprised and had little cleaning up to do. This was not the end, however. The girl put fresh linen in each room as she went down the hall and started at the far end to make up their beds. Three New Zealand airmen came in and asked questions about her bed-making. When she had done two more rooms siie found that the three airmen had shown their comrades how to make beds Canadian hotel fashion, and so all the v/ork was done.

"We in Canada rejoice when we hear about anything kindly being done by our' boys overseas, so I am pasing this pleasant bit of gossip on," added the correspondent. "It is possible the lads came from your town and their folk would be i pleased to know that in far-away •Canada their lads were truly genjtlemen, even to a lowly girl in a j hotel."