CHEERFUL UNDER FERE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16023, 15 September 1915, Page 4

CHEERFUL UNDER FERE.

'♦AS HAPPY AS CAN BE."

" WHITE GURKHA'S" LETTER.

Complete cheerfulness pervades a letter written from GaJJipoli on June 17. by Lance-Corporal Arthur Davis Price, of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, to his parents at Tangiteroria. "I think that if you could only see us now you would all give up worrying about us," declares the writer. "The boys are all as happy as can be with this sort of life. We all have little dug-outs in the side of a hill, and we live her« jusC as happy as you people are at home. I feel as young and happy as ever this morning, as I happened to get a. fresh water wash last nightthe first for over a month. Water is very scarce here, and a man is lucky if he gets enough to drink, let alone to wash. We received an issue of fresh bread yesterday— first for over two months. I can. tell you it was just lovely. Although we get " pler.tlv or b'scuits, bully, jam. and cheese, there is nothing like the old bread for a change. _*" I have been in several engagements with the enemy lately, but have been very lucky so far. I have rot even had a scratch. The nearest bullet is through mv coat-sleeve, and a couple hit my riSe. That is all. We have made quit? a name for ourselves here amongst the other regiments. They ail call us the 'White Gurkhas.' No mistake we had a rough time when we first landed. The enemy tried hard to push us off, but it was no good."

LIFE ON TRANSPORTS.

EFFECT ON THE MEN.

MINDS BROADENED

Deference to the good fellowship existing amongst the members of the fifth New Zealand contingent on the voyage to Egypt is made in a letter received from Private Archie Taylor by his brother at Ooromandel. The young soldier was recently reported to be missing at Gallipoli"A man is sick and he gets beef tea," he wrote. "He also gets toast, fruit, and anything the fellows can buy or forage. He has an engagement, and "they do his duties. _ He» is short of money, and they lend him some. It is great when yon understand it all. The drinker learns to respect the teetotaller, the non-drinker to see the good points in the other.. The bushman sees more than mere foppery in the clerk, and the clerk learns much that is good and useful front the bushman. And so it goes on, each man's individuality broadening, each man's mind enlarging to grasp the possibilities in another, and the whole steadily becoming more homogeneous and a better machine."