PRAISE FOR AIRMEN

Opunake Times, 12 September 1941, Page 5

PRAISE FOR AIRMEN

CONDUCT EM CANADA He]sort« show that the men of ! the New Zealand armed forces | abioad have created a good im'p.ession. but tire conduct of a ; party of New Zealand airmen in I Canada so appealed to a resident iof Hamilton, Ontario, that -she i has written to the Mayor, of | Auckland Mr. J. A. C. Album, ! about it.

This correspondent quotes an employee of a city hotel as saying that as a general rule soldiers were a great deal of worry and caused more work than civilians. “But the New Zealanders! Why, they are great if they are like the ‘2O we had the other week-end.” This girl then went on to say that all these boys stripped their beds and folded the linen carefully on a chair and put all trash in the waste baskets, instead of on the {too;. The hotel maid was very much surprised and had little cleaning up to do. This was not ihe end. however. The girl put fresh iinen in each room as she went down the hall and started at the far end to make up the beds. Three New Zealand airmen came; in and a-sked questions about be*." bed-making. When she had done two more rooms she found that the three airmen bad shown their comrades how to make beds Canadian hotel fashion, and so all the work was done.

“We in Canada rejoice when we hear about anything kindly beiny done bv our boys overseas, so 1 am passing this pleasant bit of gossip on,” added the corespondent, “It. is possible the lads came from your town and theij- folk would be pleased to know that in far-away Canada their lads were truly gentlemen, even to a lowly girl in a hotel.”