How Lady Roberts Broke Red Tape.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 59

How Lady Roberts Broke Red Tape.

There is a pretty story about Lady Roberts and the trunks, which comes from South Africa. At the height of the transport difficulties, in the teeth of the officials, she carried eight large trunks from Capetown to Bloemfontein. Everyone wondered, everyone murmured. No one but Lady Roberts could have got the things through. The transport of stores had been stop ped for the time, the sick lacked every comfort, and those who were not sick were half-starved and half-clad. Therefore, when a fatigue party wav told off to fetch those eight trunks from Bloemfontein station things were said, probably, about the “plague of women.” ' But next day seven of the trunks were unpacked, and their contents distributed among, the Tommies. The clever lady had snapped her fingers at red tape and smuggled comforts through to the men in this way. One small trunk contained her personal belongings.