MISUSE OF SAUSAGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

MISUSE OF SAUSAGES.

MISTAKEN FOR CANDLES,

SCOUTS' JAMBOREE COMEDY

Quartermasters in charge of tho distribution of supplies at. the recent World Jamboree of boy scouts at Birkenhead, England, can recite ad lib. the amount, of nourishment consumed in camp up to a. certain point. Scoutmaster Curnock, of Worcestershire, who, with Colonel Needliam. also of tho Worcester contiguiit, was in chargo of food estimates from the beginning, said, " We have been working out estiniate3 for this camp for eighteen months, and tho results show that wo did not spend too much time on tho job at that, for wo did not, tako into account the fact that some of the food might not ho understood by foreign scouts at all. " For instance, wo have used in the first week of camp five tons of sailsages, or, if you like, just over three miles of sausages. We might have used some hundred yards fewer if we had been awaro that eomo foreign scouts had never seen a sausage before in their lives. " Sausages have been mistaken for many things, but never beforo have they been mistaken for coloured candles. Doxens of sausages were ruined beyond repair in a number of camps by scouts trying to light the ends with matches, under thn impression thpy were coloured candles.

" Shredded wheat, too. has suffered an indignity in this camp of all the nations, for one morning we found Polish scouts diligently Scrubbing their pots and pans and using shredded wheat ni" a pan scrub."