| The month of May
arrived with no sign of a thaw. Then, suddenly, without
warning, came a heavy fall of snow, about six inches deep.
Snowballs were soon flying about and there were battles
royal between the N.C.O.s and orderlies, many of whom had
never before been so close to snow. Sergeant
Peter Munro, once amateur champion of Scotland
at hurling heavy weights, threw a snowball with such
force that it hit an astonished orderly on the side of
the head thirty yards away. The orderly promptly fell
down and took the count, but in a few moments he sat up,
still bewildered, wondering what had hit him. Thereafter
Munro was allowed to throw only with his left arm. He was
afterwards given his commission and transferred to the
Auckland Regiment. Munro is now one of New Zealand's
Police Commissioners. BACK TO NEW
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