BIG, DID YOU SAY?

29th : the Voice of the 29th Battalion, Volume 1, Issue 10, 4 August 1943, Page 4

BIG, DID YOU SAY?

Magnificent, suporcolossal.•... How con ; we describe- it? The now Battalion recreation hut roars its form over tho- countryside, dwarfing even tho R.A.P® - up to now tho chief social centre. Statisticians say tho building is 120 foot by 30 foot, with wings 40 and 50 feet , long. But isn't that a bit of an understat orient? Society thronged to the opening last .Sunday night. Tho Brigadier, nurses, visit- 1 ors from many units. Tho Battalion was also there - and tho hut held 'em easily. lan Jacobson, proprietor and licence holder, beamed with pride® j J Thuhks to the Pioneers - who drew tho thing on a specially largo shoot of paper « and then did much more - .the Black abacs who thatched, and the,non who nayvied, were offered by tho C<»o<> in opening the hut,

Features of the night wore tea., and.! cake (free) and an exhibition of local. art (very good, too) by Pte Kendall® m' , .A programme organised by Ffadro Baragwo.nath wont off very well, although tho pioneer sergeant had loft acoustics off . ' his big piece of paper. A surprising array of vocal talent was revealed, among those ; ; looking modest being Copt Burton, Liout, West, Sgt. Forsyth •■■nd Rte Anderson, end,’ of course, the Padre himself. Fto Anderson was heard in two violin solos®. Tho standard of a few recordings?.did.: ■ not compere, but when the Battalion; was asked to lend a hand the acoustics 1 were ruined for good and /all®

— ■■ ■■ ■ ■ J • In spite of a spirited rendering at the - . C. Company concert the night before, Mr. Rusden was not asked to sing -W Kid’s . * a crooner at tho opening of the new hut ■... i. _ __ U