BASE RECORDS WORK.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 3 May 1919, Page 2

BASE RECORDS WORK.

In no instance since Ihe beginning of iyi(.i has the Base Records Casually stalF left. Ihe ollice until all work mi any casualty list received tip till s p.m. has been completed and the telegrams notifying next of kin bulged in Ihe Post Ollice. This was one of the features of the war work perloriiie,) by Base elteords, the lirst. Uircctor of whicl_ Major N. Francis, r•.ibout to retire. He explains n v

report on the ollice that the casualty seel ion has dealt with as many :\< '.'i)i}o mimes in a single day. ami when he cables were received in Dm bile afternoon or evening,, the work luoj lo conliiue until long after midnight. Iv abnormal times volunteers were drawn from the whole of Uase H<'-i-rds si alf I'r overdue assistance, am) thus Ihe nexl-ol'-kin of our soldiers were relieve,l of anxiety at the earliest possible moment. No casualty report was sent out unlil Ihe cabled informal inn had been carol'ullv checked with the informalion on the Base Records bistorv sheets re_anling Ihe soldier's initial I ', unit, ami number. ;\ cable message io (Ik; Australian

napers. under dale March 27, slates that the Ministry of Food is opening national resla.nranlß in London narks, reducing the price;*, and ousting inefficient private caterers,

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