FIGHTING FAMILIES.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3207, 3 April 1917, Page 2

FIGHTING FAMILIES.

A correspondent writes to the Ta ranaki News: Sometimes I see in your valuable paper reference to good fighting families. These references must be as balm to the parents. There is one family of five boys in New Plymouth, that I would like to mention. ■ Then there is the Casey boys, late of Purangi. Four of them, Jim, Bert. Tom, and Will, were all wounded in France,* , and Joe was killed in France. Mrs Moles has also had a son-in-law invalided home from Galli poli. I think these families of game boys deserve some praise. Said a London naper of February 6: ' The hard frost and enow has lessened the supply of English and Irish °o;gs, and owing to this the trriee has advanced from 2Jd to 3d each." As the Foilding Brass Band was unable to give a concert on Sunday the band will play in the -rotunda on Thursday night next, from 7.45 o'clock. At the Rongotea public hall to-mor-row night. Major Toomer, of the Salvation Army, is advertised to give a lecture on the work of the Salvation Army at the War. This lecture has been well received elsewhere and musical items will also be renderd. The collection will be given to the Soldiers' Comfort Fund. The fact that a young railway cadet had been seen drunk drew come caustic remarks from the Chief Justice at the Supreme Court yesterday in Wellington. "Some railway companies in America," he said, "will dismiss instantly any of its servants found entering a saloon. It is a pity such a rule is not in force here. However, when the Efficiency Board gets to work it will probably decide that no man can be an efficient servant if he gives way to drink. Perhaps the regulation will be introduced into New Zealand then."

A typical instance of the neiglibourliness and goodwill of the tillers of the soil towards one of their number proceeding on active service was outlined by the secretary at a meeting of the expert advisers to the National Efficiency Board at Dunedin. He stated that, in the case of an Awamoko farmer called np, the residents of the district, so as to facilitate his entry into camp, undertook to plough his land and permit of sowing , operations before his departure. The speaker statod that no fewer than twelve teams were engaged on the land.

The appointment by the Pope of Cardinal Bourne as a member of the Consistorial Congregation adds still further to the growing importance of that body. Great Britain, Canada, and the United States are all now removed from the jurisdiction of the Propaganda and placed under the Consistorial Congregation, which has thus become the most important body in the Roman Catholic Church. The congregation is concerned with the preparation of the business for the Consistory, and thus practically decides all questions of importance.

" You may not believe it, but it is perfectly true," said a Canadian officer in the groups sitting round the club fire in London. "At the battle of there were seven of our officers lying wounded in a row, about a yard between each. A shrapnel burst overhead. It took the officers alternately. Nos. 1, 3, 5, and 7 were all struck, but Nos. 2, 4. and G were entirely untouched." Another officer in the' group confirmed the curious circumstance. He was one of the seven. Queen Wilhelmina, with Princess Juliana, superintended the army manoeuvres at Leeuwaarden on ice. Before her departure thence the Queen inspected similar exercises at The Hague. Everybody in Holland is on skates, including the Queen herself. Holland's waterways are practically blocked owin gto the frost. The peoplein the island of Ameland are in darkness, through lack of petroleum. The Zuyder Zee mailboat Gensau was caught in the ice, and the passengers had to be rescued by an ice-breaker. If enough is as good as a feast, As pale prigs and philosophers say, We all hope to get that much at least, And without any needless delay. But whatever we get must be good,

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