SNOOPINGS BY SNOOPER

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 9, 19 February 1944, Page 3

SNOOPINGS BY SNOOPER

. GUESS there *aint much new® from you boys these day© to fill / my notes, as there ’aint enough . i of you to get rips 'news® The num* bars has gone down so much lat« sly that I’ve has to start trave* Ilin* again# to Malt everybody# :: : WHAT with ■ the Con Depot and the Kiwi Club on the go, not to mention the old gang -up at ths Base Camp. ::: YOU boys is begi* nnin’ to realise again Just how much stuff a chap accumulates wbn when he stays-in one place fof a . few months* Heard the CO tollin’ one guy the other day that he had better go through his gear and toss out all the junk, because the day would be comin 1 when he ' would have to depend on his Mt . . bag again. I guess these > X’a is ths trouble® A feller goes into one of them and gets carried rfway like - by the window display® and before ho knows where ho is® he hasn’t any money left to remit home. Its like ode of the boy# who bought one them fancy knife? with all the gadgets cm. You know the kind, with only Ano blade, but a corkscrew and even one' of them things for gettin’ stones out of horses hoofs - like bey secuts used to have®. Anyway this chap was determined jto use all theses things he had bought though he 'had to change' his Job as of ton as i Torn Biggs to do it® «e Started ; off with a bit of wood carving, 1 but the knife, havin’ only one ‘ blade, soon got blunt® so he had to buy an oils tone an* a grindstone as well. He didnt have any luck with the horse hoof thing® as when he went down to the remount depot he was just another guy after the grain* He» even tried to got in tho mesa - as an orderly, so that he could use tho can opener and corkscrew, but all them job a was taken too 9 so ha had to buy his own , the the IbtriotiO ; *. parcels hclned him outa bit#

Ho had to buy in bulk as the PX doesn’t always have cans in stock. It wasn’t long after th-t he was pesterin’ Johnny Sutherland and Jack Matheson for a box and kit bag. Course he got NO for an answer from both of "’em. ::::: HURD one of the officers ask± the OC what the latest oil was. but the OC made cut he didn’t kw know. Tom Yuill hadn’t wised him up apparently. Besides the OC said he always went to the Gonophono News himself, rs that was the best source for what you wanted to hear. Must get round the Jobs next week. They tell me there’s a home issue in j?ho wind®® I’ll be spain’ yer.

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WW pennants may be procured. Contact your Orderly Clerk. tfCttnt* mini MB SBth® ALLIED NATIONS SA® MATING® This will be the racing event of the year. We have been asked to remind you to tush you nominations in early. He understand some very fine American noddies have boon Altered- and are likely to:. prove stayers# It is though they Will make an effort to c carry of the Gobo Cola ha co

Tbs two n Comrades “ managed to carry a Victory in the debate on - Friday night when P. Kenna Ssq,& B. Knowling Saquire 9 set out to defend private Property. They lost by three points® J. Jh terson-Kane & and Maclvor he winning n comrades? Ibjor® Slacksr Judged, Sgt. Poster in the chair® Cpl. <7. Stokes (US) time keeper® Audience good. A. MMting Of-th, Club Monday night,