CONDITIONS IN CAMP PRAISED

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 16, 29 March 1940, Page 5

CONDITIONS IN CAMP PRAISED

— Troops Well Fed, Weil Clothed, Well Paid Tribute to the excellent conditions ovided for training the troops in ay Zealand before sending them overis was paid by Colonel J. Hargest. jeer commanding the sth Infantry ■igade, addressing a party of Southid farmers at the Exhibition retitly. The Government had certainly done ; part,, he said. He believed no coun- '• had put its troops into camp in bet- ■ conditions. There was no extra gance in buildings, cooking, or the pply of food,.yet the men were fed j well that food was not even a topic conversation —a most unusual state «affairs. The men were well clothed. ■ll housed, and well paid. He believed the soldiers of the prefit force were better fitted to do mt they had to do than their pre lessors of 25» years ago. They were a 'Fee to be proud of, the flower of the entry's manhood. They were coming jely to the colours, and recruiting s progressing splendidly, though pre was not the incentive to join up .tile no actual war was being fought ; New Zealand troops overseas. it