“Times” Reporters Gather news in Egypt

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 99, 28 April 1941, Page 4

“Times” Reporters Gather news in Egypt

ROBIN KAY’S SCOOP STORY From news which reached Palmerston North last week, it appears that a new department of the Army has been created to supply members of the New Zealand Forces in Egypt with home news and to carry this out two members of the reporting staff of the Manawatu Daily Times have been given the task of compiling and publishing the nows sheet. They are Staff Sergeant Ai. Walker and Sergeant B. L. Kay. The first issue was run off on a duplicator and contained a precis of clippings sent air mail from Wellington. It is also revealed that Sergeant Kay covers the athletic meetings in Egypt for Captain King whose comments are heard every Sunday morning in New Zealand during the broadcast of the radio news reel. To his credit also is the story of the exploits of Don Moore, of Taikape, who walked 210 miles across the desert in ten days, without food, barefooted and with little water. New Zealand received the story from London but it was Sergeant Kay who lauded the news. Sergeant Kay states that nobody had thought to interview him. Writing to the “Times” he says that he has another story about the Long Range Desert Patrol uuder way.