NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6219, 9 December 1914, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT

SOUVENIR FROM HOME. LETTERS FROM THE TROOPS. LONDON, Dec. 4. 'i'he Now Zealand War Contingent. Fund now amounts to £6OOO. One sixth of the amount is being sent in an artistic souvenir in the form ot Christmas cards, which are being addressed individually to the troops m Egypt.

TICK ARRIVAL IN EGYPT. A CASE OF SUPPRESSION. AMUSING EPISODE. i ■ LONDON, Dec. 4 Amusement wa| caused anrong the Australians' in London by the sup pri'ssiou of information regarding the arrival of the troops in Egypt. Ahvious relatives besieged the official? who were instructed to remain dumb, and protested ignorance. Suddenly t he wife of an officer burst in and informed everybody that her husband ha d tabled to her 'that the troops hac idisembarked in Egypt.