MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 September 1914, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

When the Berrima steamed through Sydney Heads with the first Australian Expeditionary Force a southerly roll upset the . internal arrangements of many, and for the time being the last thing they thought of was—fighting. One of them said: ''I would give a quicl to be under a tree in Hyde Park this minute." One little local inddent also did much to relieve the tedium of the daily round and common task on thrt ship. A certain august personage told his orderly or "batman" to come down to the officer's mess, meaning, of course, that the orderly was to sunply his needs during the meal. The "hour arrived, but not the" man. The hunery august personage fumed and fretted, bn*" th<\ orderly wps nowhere +<o be seen. Wbmi the orderly, who had interpreted his orders as *an informal invitation to ]"nch in'+-T»e mess-room, was-eventually' discovered ira corner enjoying a hea^y meal, waited on by two "stewards, entire mess dissolved in Homeric mivtb, whil« the anprust personage, explained the facts of hi<v case to the crestfallen "batman" with an emphasis that left no further room for misapprehension.