LIFE AT TRENTHAM CAMP.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11581, 23 May 1916, Page 4

LIFE AT TRENTHAM CAMP.

A MAN'S LIFE. The following interesting letter from a Marten resident, who has recent]}’ enlisted, testifies in eloquent terms of a recruiter's life at the Trentham camp, He states; — lam here (Trentham) and like it fine. I only wish you were here with me. Just imagine you and I lying in bed scheming how we were going to dodge, drill next day. They stuck it into ns on Friday, so 1 laid awake for an extra half hour with the result that I have not done any drill since. I can see that it is going to he good. The on!}* thing that I am regretting now is that what a bally fool 1 was not to come in sooner. The food is clean and good, and there is plenty of it. The complaints some of them make are pure bunkum, ami «re made by wasters and rotters. You can show this to anyone who is afraid to come in, and tell them that judging by what I have seen in the "four days that I have been here that it is a man's life with plenty of good fun, and if there is a bit of "hard graft you are all in it together. and what's the odds. Tell he is an old cocktail if he doesn't come in. ’ ’