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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 85, 8 October 1915, Page 5

IN THE MALTA HOSPITAL ♦ — NEW ZEALAND SOLDIER'S IMPRESSIONS. Troopes J. V. Binley, of Blenheim, writing to a friend in Wellington, from the Aubera de Baviere Military Hospital, Malta, says: — "I am in this hospital run by the English R.A.M.C., and they have 105 beds with about ten sisters, and plenty of English boys as orderlies. This is the icrack hospital here for head cases, and every day there are from two to three operations, all done by English specialists. There are not a great many deaths, but of course a few die, and are buried with full military honours. Batches of chaps leave every week for the convalescent hospitals up country, and their beds are immediately filled by fresh cases. Goodness only knows how many wounded there are here. All the hospitals — nineteen in number — are full, and some take 600 patients. All the schools are being iitted up now, and I hear the island will then be able to accommodate 15,000. This is only a very small place to what Alexandria^ and Cairo will hold. Troopships crammed with troops are passing every day, and it looks as if the Turks were in for a bad time during the next few weeks. CONDITIONS ON GALLIPOLI. The weather oonditions on Gallipoli get very bad the end of this and next month — the rainy seasorf — and unless we can shift the Turks before then we will be in for & hot time. Still, our boys will shift them if it is a,t all possible, and then it will be the beginning' of the end. I hope I can get back before theyi advance on Constantinople, although. 'I fancy the warships will fix that for us. We had a terrible time down there, and it got on everyone's nerves. Our trenches ■were only forty yards from the Turks — less in some places, and the instant you showed anything over the parapet you got a. shower of bullets. On several occasions ths Turks tried night attacks, and once even got into our trenches, but all were bayoneted. The dead lay where they fell, and as the heat was on an average lOOdeg., you can imagine the position. .". . We had very good food, and plenty of it, but I only used to have two meals a day/ one about 4 a.m., and the other after sunset, and then you had no flies. Water was not plentiful, but that was no, fault of our heads, as it had to be brought from here (Malta) in water-boats. Other conditions were , not bad, but we had very few men, and had long" hours in consequence. Still, none complained. This place we are in is a marvellously well preserved building, and was occupied and built by the Knights of Baviere. It is two-storied, with stonework throughout, excepting the roof, which is domeshaped, 30 feet high, and of large wooden laths. Everything is up to date, and we want for nothing. They give us 2s a week, so that we can get fruit — grapes are. ld a pound — that beats you. The Maltese do all the work, and the population otherwise is military. The island is fourteen miles across, has tram and train services, and the shops are after the style of Cairo. Churches there are by the dozen." ' ONSLOW BOROUGH i -■ — r* MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. The , fortnightly meeting of the Onslow Borough Council was held last night. The Mayor (Mr C. C. Crump) presided, and there were also present : Councillors J. C. Gardener, A. W C. Palmer, L. A. Browne, H. Brenton-Rule, C. Bowden, J. M. Dale, A. E. Budd, W. Appleton, and J G Smith Accounts amounting to £236 11s were passed for payment. The Mayor said : "That will leave us a little credit." Two applications were considered for the position of ranger, and Mr. E. Biggs received the appointment as from the 18th insfc. Mr F Holds worth was granted a license to store benzine and kerosene within the borough An application by the KhandaHah Presbyterian Church for the removal of an electric light from the manse gate to the church gate was granted. The engineer (Mr. R. S. Rownthwaite) submitted a report relative to the widening and improving of a portion of the Main-road, Ngaio, between Colway-street, and the road to the station. Provision is made for six; foot pathway and korbing, but in no case will the carriage way ba less than 17 feet. The report, which covered other minor road matters, was unanimously adopted. .Councillor Budd moved that the engineer be instructed that, wherever street improvements are being carried out, and it is practicable, approaches to sections with residences thereon be improved in. preference to approaches to vacant sections. This was seconded by Councillor Browne and carried. A ehequ for £10 3s 7d was received from the secretary of the KhandaHah Literary and Debating Society (Mr. E. Hobbs), the result of a mock court held recently in aid of the ''Belgian Fund. It was agreed to send a letter of thanks to the secretary on the satisfactory result. THE SALVATION ARMY ♦ Some very interesting reminiscences in regard to the Salvation Army were given by Commissioner Hodder last evening at the Citadel, Vivian-street, on the occasion of a fancy dress spectacular display 'representing all the nations among* which the Army labours. The Commissioner remarked that it was just fifty years since the Army vva6 founded. First of all was founded the East London Mission, afterwards called the Christian Mission, and then the Salvation Army Commissioner Railton wrote a pamphlet in which he said, "The Christian Mission is a volunteer army " But General Booth 6truck out the word "volunteer," and substituted the word "salvation." That was how the organisation came to be known as the Saivation Army The Commissioner traced the growth and development of the~ Army, and among other things pointed out _ that they_ published 81 periodicals, with a combined circulation of 1,112,000 copies per issue, and in connection with the present war he said that they had 25 gazetted chaplains and 15 ambulance motors at the front, while 3000 bandsmen had enlisted for service. In addition, 1500 men had enlisted from their various social institutions — men who a few months ago were known as absolute "wasters." In all, some 30,000 Salvation soldiers were now serving in the wax. During the evening the Chief Secretary (Lieut.-Col. Powley)_ gave a very interesting address on missionary affairs, and Major Colled^e spoke of the Army's work among the criminal classes of India. "A good name is better than, riches." — Cervantes. 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