CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 26 May 1917, Page 7

CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND.

HAWERA OFFICER'S COMMENTS

! Writing from Exeter Training Camp |to his brother in Hawera, Lieut. JK. [ Sellar gives some idea of the condiI tions at Home. He says, inter alia, I that "living is getting extraordinarily dear. Our food is worse, and our mess bills bigger. We are on ration bread; we have one meatless day and two potatoless days per week. Sugar is non est, and we get no butter— only margarine." He had suffered from a severe attack of gastric influenza, but at the time of writing was much improved. Referring to weather conditions, he 6ays: "The past winter is undoubtedly the worst I have ever put in. I seem to have been fighting it all the time, but things feel brighter now. A few buds are showing and crocuses and violets are putting their heads up. It is Easter shortly. This j puzzles me even more than Christmas. 1 simply can't realise that Easter can come in the spring. It seems to fit in so well in the autumn, and that seems to be the more appropriate seaeon for it." Writing of the training j of cadets, he says that a new system is being inaugurated, by which the course is being altered 'cm three to four months. Refer *,'■• o the submarines, he cays: I ••, unppy to think that this P"<?.- <■ '• been so dreadful as ■• ■ :• '. am afraid, however, r r per imports and cxi. «= '