A QUEER CORPS.
UNIFORMS A BAD FIT,
Some time ago the cadets at Numurkah (Vic.), numbering about 60 or 70, were measured for uniforms. The tape was run over them with great care,, but somewhere in the arrangements a hitch occurred, and when the suits were ready for distribution there was neither number nor name attached to them. The result was that the short and fat boys in many cases found themselves with nether garments so long that they needed only a hat to complete the uniform, while the tall youths had big, uncomfortable gaps between the coat and the trousers. There is a good dteal of real indignation on the part of the boys and their parents, but an enterprising resident has suggested how evil may be turned to good. He recommends that 1 the boys garbed in their grotesque costumes should be billed at the Numurkah Hall as the "Queerest Corps on Earth." A drill hall might be built with the proceeds. ■ ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14806, 9 October 1911, Page 8
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