AROUND THE JOBS.

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 12, 11 March 1944, Page 3

A ROUND THE JOBS.

WITH 4th. H. 21. Gansi'al HospWal almost, completed. Works Consti*uo»* tion Unit soon had a party under Lieut* -S»R« Mann down at Bourall Beach where scarfed cliffs had for

the first time in 1 centuries to watch hoary old cacti uprooted and ancient mi culls nwpt aside by ~ bull do I*o .«3 a party of 1 de t o xml nod Kiwis got to work on thu ftoundat ” ions of what will ho one of tho most up--data soldier to / lino the shores of the wide swooping Paciflou:: WITH Sgt® Al Bow * man as arohiteot, Lieuthl’&w* has. Sgt <,A Wagnar, CplSj.T. B3,uaV. f G King and. Sprs*.. Arty VZ.illiiwa» <Lan Chasswaesj Prod Brndlcyp G-or»-don Gardiner, Mio Brew Bill O’pnorjn and M. a* I&oyd assisted by a party ox Infantile lbw do the lads onjsoy carving out of the waters edge a spot for the Div’a* relaxation ? Here is what Alan W&gner has to say: ’• It is fine h3rs but. for eno thing*

the mosaics; they breed in the sea water and have all the technique of the. barraoouta - and I moan it.* But we have made a emull hut mozzib pro elf whure wo can write and read at night - 0 ! mun and VII show ycuV ' After' work the IgCu hop into tho surf for a swim « it is all their basin for ; morning wabM r.'.' Thil Club will account for 26*000 square feet of timber and will consist of

a cafeteria, strcant, kitchen# . serve storeroom ana buld store for vegetables and other food stuff??® A barbers shop, wxd ting .‘and ' reading 'room, a large Mil with ample he cun* oda 11 o n p. ncl lar g o atn 3 0 equipped with footlights and drop durtsln . which will make possible high olaas

entertainment* c 1 ng th# curf? a verandah 'four fovtvtf wifi stretch

along the ox* the. • builaing whore ..Soldiers ofi -lohvo .will be ah .10 to

neat in tho comfort of deck chairs* Ao oon oda ic? . will c6nb 1□ t of three blocks, that . for mnlo visitors will account for Zl’uJOO square fcbM 3&6oo fox fcmlo visitors and 3.48 for staff quartern The whole .area will be a poor stamp* ing ground for mo zzi e a and other izmut ’ribsa when 3/lf Gordon Bexu?y tnu hip drainage experts get to work and install a system that meet all hccQCi3ary raquiomoxits. To thz't rmvst be added n hot and cold. water nywtoai and r 6 loot into light* Ing which '■ Tho *c rribis ’’Whit ten and Sergos on will probably have a band in* The • undor talcing as at present co neo Ived it c. fine adk* iiowlydgomont of to the her flghting rxxi and’ oppresses 3 sentiment tbit, will be heart Tally rbentud by every man.

£QXuSBIS'> _ x •,’ ' , I2P you entertain any doubt t c$ the morale of. the party under Captain W» P. Boyd, wo Ing at the Convalescent Depot you can skip it with your host hup stop and jump, Th»xv wss not one. aeons

don© in tho two hour® we were 'h tho,TO and nil wg got from Capt. Boyd was u wave, from Liout a W V/.hw u Si ho* uro you n ’« from S/M Stururt lUtchiuuon a “ o’mon haw® a cup of tea ,} ( which we did ); Bgt* ?otcr Wingfield,, when wo told .hi ■ha looked twenty ye ara youpgor* fcs?f;d if wq/ thought ha wore 15 o«?;Vu«ty ,: cind thou went on to- toll us 0 everything wj b question of mind “ whxlo he vigor* o umly demonstrato d the to ri a 1 iwAturc of mttequltoeo® tl/M yx’ad Ihul wore, hl«? oonj hither fcdlo( uhout oho provxsio of which w.o’d . why ;,*wx\, 'eei’e tiny not a hone 1)* opl ibhb known os the H eeu from, the bush rt ms strippei to the wm?. Uplv 'Tehtm: Mason ■ ;

who had a bad attack of misognagjy - a sailor we believe - has now thoroughly recovered and with justifiable pride gave us a brie iff ’’look” at 'a snappy 4 _ photograph, but would not permit a glance at the address on the back. Bay Barnaby, slightly more generous, showed us two snaps! no wonder we cant find a girl friend) which made the ”pin-up girl “look a jerk. It seems as thoiSfe only the Corporal and Sapper deserves the fair. Some of theses lads go the monoply way - take ”Ced” Reid, for ©cample - but no, we must not spill the beans. ::: OUT on the job we bumped intc

into .Fred Watts, our best dressed rep., who always looks na .ty .’’When are we going home?’} he asked* * Any year now’ we replied. If you know Fred, there is no need to repeat what he said; if you do not know him,you’re missing something through the Censor clouting down on us. Sgt® Mauris Watson we saw in the distance. We were making for him when we heard ” How arc y* fellas?’ from now other than young Bobbie CraiT who was beaming with joy at the prospect of staying here another two years* Mic Pasco, ©ur racing, authority*' was not so beaming. He was almost profane in the Jbscoish way.: THEN we bumped into a group of the Wharf lads who gave us a great reception - they say Works are helping them build Con Depot. They are a pretty good bunch.We located OC of Wharf, Captain F.J. Clark, promised a "Home Issue” for Wharf in a few weeks and then had t

to flit. Our next contact was young E.D. Clark who promptly shouted: ” Look out - here’s that Dozerdust on the job. keep your mouths shut ’i That ruined everything. However, we met Jim Taylor and his mate, Duncan Comrie* Jim was on top of a building, Duncan ("Doug” to strangers) glowered at from from round a cofncr. Jim says his mate has taken a new lease of life since the P.T. course, When we told Jim his horse ( Tom Clarke had a part share) won the race in the last meeting he was not surprised. He has not the stake money ( $5 This is for Mrs. Taylor’s information).:::: IT is time we said something about

the job'. Here it is. The boys are working on a hospital theatre, 4,276 square feet, not.just a' jerry jumped dump, but a theatre containing all modern equipment for operations, settiu setting limbs, skin diseases,, xray & all that will be required. Two hospital wards , each capable of taking 60 beds - one ward already has patients in r Administrative block will include pay office, postal, reception room, administrative offices for medical ....

and nursing staff, bu’ Ik ration store? pack store, men’s kit store, laundry and tailor shop. Drainage, a most important item in a climate such as this, will amount to a 3»?GO foot system, a septic tank, hot and cold water supply and electric lighting system throughout the whole area* And, incidontially, we were finally nabbed by the " Terrible’’Whitten who buttonholed us and , taking us aside said in the best Karloff voice: ” I , What do you know ? When are we going home?” Knowing him, as you no doubt do, you will agree that we did the wise thjng by asking :-”Whftt do you think ? ' And then agreeing that he had the dinkum oil. Before we left C/Cpl Lea Butler, the ” Man with the Kissable 4 Lips ” got his claws into us and wanted to know what

his wife .would say if she’ read what we had been saving about him • What could we : say® (We’ll dodge him after this till he finds out ) By this time wo were feeling like ; r

prospective patient, for a ward bed, when a long came Basil of ” Wh ocacker ” fame J’ The*Old Man’ll be going

in a few minutes - and cut out that- DozerPUQP you’re putting over I' Wo 11 ? ‘ the Old, Ihn " duly arrived, and Driver Tom Yuill - no tt wo’ll skip it and movU on to Ba so.

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< . 00 in charge of this party 9 Lieut. R* Gilmour is an officer we she very little of. He and his lads are kept busy on the essen* tial services of supplying metal? \ shingle-, mintaining plant and turn- \ ing-out a host of odds and ends which all our Jobs depend upon. H® also fights a bitter war against an army of pot holes on the main roaii. ( we know about them, but they . flight , a loosing battle? thatk Gawd} After a salutj' from Lieut. Gilmour we made .'dire for Don wllaway’s Canteen;and were politely ,but firmly told wo could not have this and that? but we• did get a .stick of candy®Then ■who should; come bounding along but •'Gill I’ ; Bruce. ” So you got here at last. What have you t got for up ?1 typical C.c'EL manner) What aWt the welfare dept,?l Kg weathered the storm and learnt that ” Gill H had

finally .be caught by the untimely arrival, of th Ration Truck and he had to 'unload - hence the bite. Charlie Ryo, the transport -Sgt. put ‘ us in a good mood.by showing us over his office p where he turns out his well known batch of scones. We missed the lot he did when he fell in the river. Bay Orderly ’ Cle.vk| would not spill the beans; he occupies ths

9 other end of the partitioned office and conducts the pen and paper warfare for the party. :::: FIRST to nail us was ”TPH” Buckley who wanted to know what Bob Johnston I did to us for cutting a poem of his we published® Groat was the 1

di sap pain tment•,

n Why he said he was going to tear you up ij’or # but i ’spose he forgo to ' Anyway 'when are we going horns , cmo ,’ yo c ugh ta now! this Dozerdust must be in the know. What's this about the ’’Oldifen*

giving a talk; C’mon, now, what

was .it ? K Just '‘•lien along cams x aurie Palmer and Steve Sash •’’Had tea yet,?” was their first question* We fell to it„ :::: NEXT day we >d whooped out to the ” Drag Line 1 to sec ” Deacon’’ Carswell and r Alan Dye who have a home of their own on the river bank. Peter O’Rsiley, chauffeur extraordinary to the party, was out on a job. The 'Deacon” was reticent on fishing methods, but hinted that the special frying pan 7 used for cooking catch has to be - put on fire when going to bed so that it will be warm in morning* is:; ON our way back to the main road ♦? faur miles - we • contacted Ron Bull, Alan Matthews knee. en(i party. Greeting us with the unusual question : ” When are and got ng home ?’/ they were stumped with the rpply : ” If you £ were General Put tick what would your answer bo $ Rather involved, judging from Ronis of fort - but he’d get everyone homo ( farmers nocd, you ’ guess, come first ) :::: BACK in Base, we did oufr best to contact in P Major 8, Vtyst,DCRE,. but, apart from seeing hity busy interviewing*

we had to come away with S/Sgt. Aim’s promise that ” the Jfejor

would not be very long V Of the Major’s staff we butt'oneholed ’ldeal* Scott whose marina engineering we tapped on the question of hydro- • graphy; Lieut* Brooker we missed, but wore very impressed by Sfet. Alan Chapman *s neatly ironed and creased shirt. l/Cpl Burge growled a welcome - he usually rushes us into a rickety chair a spider would not hang-a web to* z Cyril Walker, Jack Dodd, Doug -Mclnvosh and Ted ' were all busy in the mech* anic’s shop * lacks like a *? between a < huj*bh and a sky scraper - *- from where they hurled - ” so you’ve come at last « c Yes,> we came and unfortunately! had to go, but con- ; vinced there is none better tHan WOB&% V\ I