TWOPENCE A DAY ON BEER
AVERAGE AL'STRALIA’CS EXPENDITURE Recd. 7.5 p.m.) Me'bourne, Dec. 23. The average Australian soldier aends only twopence a day on beer i Army canteens. This is disclosed y an analysis of canteen takings. The ansumption of soft drinks is 4t a luch higher level. Indeed, to cope ith the demand, the Canteens Board as established several aerated water nd cordial factories. No liquor other /an cordials has been sent to New uinea since August. oys proceeded mostly by day, unmolited from the air or on the ground, larada, which the enemy had octpied a short time previously, was lund by patrols to be deserted when io New Zealanders passed that way. s the desert was dustless, occasional tin was to our advantage, making lore difficult enemy observation of ic move. During halts in the jouray the inevitable footballs appeared, ad even now as our guns are firing ad enemy shells are falling not far istant, they are soaring into the air round where I write.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 303, 24 December 1942, Page 3
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