PARCEtS FOR PRISONERS OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 121, 18 November 1918, Page 6

PARCEtS FOR PRISONERS OF WAR

The Defenco Department notifies that tho quarterly parcels for prisoners of war which were to be sent under the coupon system will not now be accepted by post offices, as the Government considers that all prisoners of war, under the terms of the armistice, will be shortly repatriated, and no good purpose can be served in sending such parcels now.

There is no change in Dr. Pollen's condition. Miss Pollen is very much better. . • .

Mr. Joseph Lewis, secretary of the Wellington Patriotic Society, who has been laid up with influenza since Thursday last, is much better, to-day. His youngest daughter is also laid up.

The Brooklyn State School is being converted into a temporary hospital for influenza patients.

The Rarawa is not to leave Onehunga for New Plymouth until to-morrow, the 19th. She will leave New Plymouth on her return next Wednesday.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., announce the postponement of Bright's land sale at Otaki.

Private William Mouton, son of Mrs. M.' Mouton, Mount Pleasant, Mitchelltown, whose death from meningitis occurred at Torquay, England, on 30th October, went away with the 18th Reinforcements, and saw heavy fighting in France until he was sent to hospital with trench fever five months ago. Deceased, who was 25 years of age, was educated at the Mitchelltown school, His two brothers (Eddie and' Dan), who went away in the Bth and 20th Reinforcements respectively, have both been wounded, and axe now back in Fiance.

Mr. Owen Mahon, who represent* an Auckland firm, has been ill in Wellington from influenza. He has almost recovered from the attack.

The death occurred at Seatoun last nigtit «f Mr. William Edward Williams! seoond sou of Mr. S. S. Williams, furniture manufacturer, Taranaki-street. The deceased, who was 34 years of age, waa bora in Wellington, and had been manager of his father's business. He has left a widow and one child.

The funeral of Lieut.-Col. Mathew Holmes, N.Z.M.C., which took place yesterday, was a military one, a gun carriage' of the New Zealand Artillery carrying the coffin to Karori. The pallbearers were : Major-General Sir •A, W. Robin, C.8., K.C.M.G., SurgeonGeneral R. S. F. Henderson, C.8., CoL J. It. Pardy, and Col. Roberts, and Messrs. H. P. Rawson and A. E. Pearce. A large numbeT of citizens, including several medical men, paid a last tribute to, the late Dr. Holmes. Among them were Sir J. G. Ward, Drs. Elliott, Fyfe, Robertson, Hart, the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke, C.M.G.), Mr. Palmer (Town Clerk), Messrs. W. E. Bethune, W. Beauchamp Platts, Major Hollis, Capt. Chudley, Messrs. C. A. Lawrence, W. S. La Trobe, H. Pago, Green, and E. Lawson. The returned soldiers were represented by Mr. J. I. Fox, manager of- the Returned Soldiers' Club. The burial service was read by Rev. Dr. Elliott, and the "Last Post" was sounded by a bugler.

Major F. G. Massey, M.C., D.5.0., son of the Prime Minister, is at prosent visiting Wellington. Major Massey won liis D.S.O. for his efficient command of his battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade until badly wounded in the severe fighting in March. It was largely due to his resource and grasp of the- situation that the Battalion did such good work in the vicinity of B«aum»t*-C»mbriii. < . ' .