CLUTHA NEWS ITEMS.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 52, 11 July 1918, Page 4

CLUTHA NEWS ITEMS.

(Prom Clutha Leader.)

Gum boots arid loggings ivoro the vogue in footwear at Balclntha.on Bale day.

Miss M. Hull has been appointed second assistant at Waitati School.

Mr Charles Smyth, who has been on the staff of thc local post office for ".some ti'me, has received notice.to transfer to the gallery at Oamaru.

Lieutenant-colonel A. 11. Herbert, •D.S.O. ('Heriot), who is now with a British formation, has relinquished his appointment of officer commanding the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, Ordnance Corps, D.A.D.'O.S., to the division.

Private Andrew Henderson, of the entrenching battalion, who is a son of Mrs 'R. Henderson, of Benhar, is now officially reported to 'be a prisoner of war in 'Germany. He was previously reported missing and 'believed to be a prisoner of .war.

- The steamer traffic has had to be suspended owing to the very low state of the river, there 'being quite a number of places where there is not more than two and a-half feet of water. With frosty weather there is no saying how long present conditions will continue. Fortunately there is not a grea't 'deal of cargo offering, the most pressing being probably coal. Thc crew are presently engaged in various work at Balclutlia wharf. There is said to be' very little snow in thc Clutha water-shed.

'Corporal A. J 3 . IScott, who returned from the front to Lovells Flat a f'ow we'eks ago ('writes our correspondent) ■was a member of the fifth reinforcements, and was for some time in Egypt before proceeding 'to France. He was twice 'wounded, the first occasion being at the Som'me, and the second at the taking of OBoulderhoch 'Chateau. The residents of Lovellg Flat and surrounding districts will give hi'm a public welcome a't an early date, 'Corporal Scott is 'at present receiving medical attention at the Dunedin Hospital.