A "LONELY” ANZAC.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4475, 16 February 1917, Page 7

A "LONELY” ANZAC.

1345 LETTERS IN THREE DAYS. Corporal Tom Goodhead, postman for a .certain Australian battalion “Somewhere in France,” should not incur a reprimand from superior officers for communicating with the Press. He had too good a story to tell to let it be wasted. “Just a note,” lie says, “to tell you what you people on the. Sydney “Sun” have done to one of our boys. Some time ago in your paper you inserted a request that ‘some miss or other’ would write to Private W. P. P. Thuning, as he had very little news from Australia. “Well! This request has certainly been granted. If Private W.P.P.T. is given enough time off duty to read all the letters he has received, ho won’t be finished till long after we have bagged Billy. “The following is a three-days’ tally from one Australian mail—with more to come:— First day 130 letters Second day ... 1145 letters Third day 70 letters Total 13415 letters “Also, three packets on the third day. . “So, you see, ‘it pays to advertise.’ The joke on Private W.P.P.T. was not a bad one; but I got the rough end of it, as I have to handle all the battalion mail.”