ALL-RANKS DANCE LONDON

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 14, 2 August 1940, Page 4

ALL-RANKS DANCE LONDON

. — ■ Il 1 Entertainment For N.ZI „ It 1 EPIDEMICS OF MEAS® AND MUMPS CLEAR®!* AND MUMPS CLEARING -— i R ?e (From the Official War Coresponih Attached to the New Zealand FT, in Great Britain.) .„ LONDON, July 1 The first all-ranks dance ink! organized for the New Zealand fun tionary Force by the New Zealand - Services Association, was a greatcess. Last evening between 300 and I officers, non-commissioned officers, men attended, travelling to, and® camp by free omnibus. The tickets! ,1/-. including supper. Three hundred partners, sped, selected and invited by the wh committee in London, inclwW A Mary Churchill, daughter Minister, and several girls of theft’

aristocracy, besides New Zealand i| and civilians living in England! latter, being guests of the High dl missioner, Mr. W. J. Jordan, audit General B. C. Freyberg, V.C. Jleif of the 'New Zealand Air and r forces .were also present. The [St was played toy the Brigade Bands ' It -is proposed to make these tjj c a weekly feature for the entertain! of the troops. | r Though letters posted on JuDetc eluded ailmail arriving .via Egypt, fit, earlier airmail and all steamwL have not yet been received. I Mr. Geoffrey Cox, New E-» me Rhodes scholar and till lately aße Street correspondent, has enlisted, the New Zealand E peditionarjjp* Though the sickness rate 1?, rather higher than among the Ef> troops, the health of the NewZt-W----■men is satisfactory in view flfJM' rather erratic weather and ten-. . tures of the past 10 days. The * epidemics of measles arid mo® ’ „ now clearing, only 25 cases remain* ■> hospital. There are very few ( '!ler serious illness, and the number -■ pital suffering from minor c on) ff a A other than measles and nninp’about 100. A convalescent ho® c r<, ing , established in an attractive Anne residence with extensive r|near. the New Zealand Genetl pita’ll - FA