With the 94th

Flak, Volume 1, Issue 7, 11 June 1943, Page 3

With the 94th

We have been semi-officially inform-

ed that the 94th Battery is about to adopt a new motto—“Absque Labore

. Nihil” (Wthout Labour, Nothing). We treat with lofty scorn the ribald comment of a would-be witty gunner who suggested. that “And With it, Less than Nothing” should be added. And we would further add that the achievements of the 94th do not require the services of the 67th’s' spotlight.

The great topic of the last fortnight has been the Mystery of the Missing Heater. In spite of the engagement of that eminent criminologist Mr. Sheerluck Jones, no solution of the mystery was forthcoming. ' The 0.. C. was on the point of ordering Gnr, Frothing to fill in form 27643 LL.B, in desperation, and submit the whole matter to caucus, when an urgent appeal was made to the Minister of Supply, Dr. Defoe. Armed with unlimited authority, a pretty Waac and a Ford VB, Dr. Defoe was able to convince the authorities in Auckland of the urgency of the case; a heater was supplied to cover the deficiency, and the high lords of the battery once more resumed their interrupted slumbers. On such small things do crises turn.

A requisition for starch to our Minister of Supplies, Dr. Defoe, was put in by that venerable and austere descendant of the" Roman matrons, Sgt. Tenderdaughter. In the name of all gunners we protest. We would have our lady gunners as nature intended them to bebright-eyed, laughing daughters of Aphrodite; to the haughty, aristocratic dames of other units we would leave such things as starch or any other stiffening measure they may desire.

This battery has been honoured by a visit from a 8.5. M., one of the principal ornaments of the great Smith family.. His principal; object in life sees to be the tagging of hutsfobfear they should be missed. With humble deference we suggest a far greater scope for his activities. In the words of Gilbert and Sullivan: “He’s got them on his list, and they never would be missed.” C..O.’s please note.