A TRUE PATRIOT.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 2

A TRUE PATRIOT.

Ser-t, Reg. Fear, of Wellington, formerly a chemist in 'Wellington and more recoiirtly in Dannevirke, who went away as a member of N.Z.M.C., writes from Loudon on January 1.0 to the effect that the Weymouth Camp (when., the colonials reassembled after tJieir furlough at Home) was being abandoned, ou.iug to its alleged unhealthy condition, and in -consequence tiii- New Zealanders ivere reassembling at llornehunh. occupying the huts receul ly occupied by the Sportsmen's Ba.ffa.l'-'oit. The piaec belonged to a wealthy gentleman who had given his home and grounds to the War Oflice, had built, and fitted the huts, and provided everything in readines* for the -reception of the troops. Tho house, one of the fine old English types, covered with Virginia' creeper. : .s age. old, and is known, as "Tho Grey Towers." 'The place is considered to he one of the best camps in England. When he wrote, Sergt. Fear was N.C.O. in charge of the hospital, with a stall of eight under 'him. "The hospital," he writes, "is a tip-top place, and well fitted out, almost everything we require In ing here —Ii rein each room, hot and cold waiter, and kitchen very complet-o." Sergt. Fear is a. to New Zealand by the A-rawa. which is duo shortly.