ARE OUR MEN WELL FED?

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 635, 10 July 1917, Page 1

ARE OUR MEN WELL FED?

WHILE ACTUALLY AT THE FRONT ? Mr Payne, in Hie House on Friday, said that on the ■"''Western frontier to-day soldiers were buying meals because they were getting such measly food —weevily biscuits and such like. Mr E. P. Leo: Nonsense, Mr Payne refolded that it was not nonsense. He had a soldier’s lefter to hear him oiH. Sir Joseph 'Ward: R is not. mie. Mr Payne: It is true. Alt’ Homshy: Ask the men who t come back, The Prime, Mini- -r gave an .unqualified denial io the statement that our; soldiers-a,t Dje front, had to supplement their rations out of their pay. When at the front he had met thousands of our men, ami had not heard one, complaint. The men’ had' a, lot to put up with, hut no fault could ho found with the finality and quantify of the food.