"TUIS" IN CAIRO

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24139, 4 December 1941, Page 3

"TUIS" IN CAIRO

LARGE MILITARY PARADE AN INSPIRING SIGHT One of the members of tho New Zealand Women's War Service Auxiliary now serving in the Middlo East, Sergeant Anne Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Myers, of Mount Eden, writes an interesting account of the girls' experiences since arriving in Cairo.

"From tho windows of our very well appointed apartments we have a line view of Cairo city, which has some beautiful buildings and shops," she writes. "I have been on only one shopping expedition so far and found that everything was quite expensive so I have come to the conclusion that the natives

'are making hay while the sun shines.' Tho slum areas are just one seething mass of native men, women and children who seem to squat all over the roads regardless of traffic, which, by the way, is very congested." Sergeant Myers states that _ one of the most impressive ceremonies the girls had attended since their arrival in the Middle East was the large military parade and march past held recently. The writer, who was in charge of tho "Tuis" in the absence of their commanding officer, Lieutenant M. Neely, says that the parade was a sight never to be forgotten. To see all the men and women from all parts of the British Empire, dressed in their respective uniforms, was most inspiring. The writer pays a special tribute in her letter to the New Zealand nurses, who, she said, were doing fine work and were a unit of which the should be very proud. The "Tuis," sho added, were a fine lot of girls who fwero living as one big happy family.