ALEXANDRA BARRACKS.

NZ Truth, Issue 692, 21 September 1918, Page 2

ALEXANDRA BARRACKS.

Detention Diet. Dear "Truth," — I would like you 'to put a few lines m your valuable paper m answer to one which I saw recently m connection with the Alexandra Detention Barracks. I was a prisoner at the time someone wrote to you about the food not being too good or enough to eat. Well, I did 112 days up there, and 35 besides me. All of us got plenty to eat. As regards the cook, you could not wish for a better chap, I am writing this for all hands up there now. When you got that letter it must have been written by one of Bill Massey's narks. As it is you must remember it is next to gaol, so none of us ought to be there; but when it comes to blaming the cook, " it is getting over the odds. Nothing we want from him could be better done, but you know they never will let w.ell alone. I believe the cook read the letter, and, of course, he got "harked" over it, and we all had to suffer over one man. He used to give us more than we ought to get, as the ; menu is not a very big one. I can also tell you it used to be better than Trentham, and we did not have to work on it. We .all put on weight. That will show you the difference between Trentham and Alexandra Barracks. — Yours, etc., ■-,-.;;■ "W.A.S." Featherston. >. -