NEST-EGG FORGOTTEN
OFFICERS’ GAY DINNER. A chance discovery after move than 12 years of a bank balance of £ISOO belonging to the officers of the Machine Gun Corps was celebrated in London recently with a gay dinner. At this, the first reunion of the officers of the corps since the war, 100 of the men gathered and toasted their nest-egg, which had been forgotten since the war. it lay safely accumulating interest in a Hythe bank, until one day Major R. P. Burnand remembered it. He held consultations with brother officers, and the money was formed into a trust fund. Interest on the fund will be used to pay for an annual dinner, and all exofficers of the Machine Gun Corps are eligible to join the Dining Club for a subscription of half a crown.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21530, 30 December 1931, Page 11
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