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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1923, Page 6

There are ninety-seven New Zealand soldiers buried in the Brockenhurst parish churchyard, and it has been suggested that many of their relatives might like to contribute to a church bells memorial fund," stated a letter received by the executive of the Christchurch Keturned Soldiers' Association at its meeting on Tuesday night.. It was written by Mrs. C. Salvey, the president of a ladies' committee which is caring for the graves of New Zealanders at Brockenhurst. The fund is for, the restoring of three old church bells and for the hanging of three now ones. The alterations are estimated to cost £400. The letter expressed the hope that one of the new bells would be dedicated to the memory of the New Zealand soldiers, and suitably inscribed. The secretary of the R.S.A., Mr. W, E. Leadley, was asked to receive any subscriptions to the fund and forward them to England.

An admission that he had obtained by false pretences a railway ticket valued at 4s 2d, from the Labour Department, was made by a well-built young man named Walter David Fisher, described as a blacksmith, who appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Chief-Detective Kemp explained that the accused had falsely represented himself to be William James Daniel Barnes, a returned soldier, and for this reason had been given a ticket by the- Labour Department to go to work at Waikanae. The accused had a long "list," and was stated to be a "loafer and a waster." The accused pleaded for "a last chance," but the Magistrate said that in face of the previous convictions he would have to impose a sentence of two months' imprisonment, with a concurrent sentence of fourteen days for using obscene language to Plainclothes Constable Kane at the time oi his arrest. The father of the accused, David Fisher, who had obstructed the constable when he waa effecting the arrest, was fined £5, in default twenty-one days' imprisonment, fourteen days being allowed the defendant in which to find the money. The Magistrate remarked he was always reluctant to impose a fine in guch a case as the present one, but the accused, whoii;t«#f«ss m his swi'jt behalf, w«g jhh sivea i b.»d chwisJ3i< by, Jb tylise.