PERSONAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 17, 1 March 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sergt. Myles Barrowclough, writing recently to a friend in Havelock from Fort Darland (Chatham), where he was receiving a special course of instruction, says: “The New Zealand uniform is not very well known here, and we arc continually being taken for “Yanks.” After all its hardly likely that many of our boys would choose a garrison town like Chatham to spend their leave in. The place is crammed full of boys belonging to both services, and when we go on leave we want to forget for the time being that there is such a thing as war. Life is very interesting this side of the world. Things arc happening with rather startling rapidity. Even as I write there is very heavy firing going on somewhere. One seems to feel rather than hear the sound of heavy guns at great distances.”