OUR HALCOMBE LETTER

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1889, 27 April 1928, Page 5

OUR HALCOMBE LETTER

ANZAC DAY SERVICE SOME OTHER LOCAL NOTES (From Our Own Correspondent.) A service was held in Halcombe Hall on April 25 to commemorate the glorious deeds oT our hoys at the never-to-be-forgotten landing on Gallipoli, 13 years ago. There was a large audience, presided over by Air Thornley:” " A close holiday was observed here, and the soldiers’ memorial had many wreaths and floral emblems placed on it. . The- service, which was led by Mr Thornley, the Methodist minister at Halcombe;, who is a returned soldier himeslf, was simple, but very impressive. '. Mr Thornley in bis address reminded tlm gathering of the men who were broken in the war, many perhaps gave more than their lives, but still livcyl without hope, many misunderstood and misjudged, scarcely knowing themselves the reason why they could not lift themselves. With these men the speaker urged the people, to deal kindly and patiently. “I believe as an ex-soldier that to carry out the desires of those who have died for us and the liberty of the world, they would ask three things of us: Care for those we have left, especially ho children and the aged; help our brothers who are broken in the fight; and see to it that this terrible, cruel and cursed thing, war, should never occur a gain.’HORTICULTURAL SHOW. The secretary of the- Horticultural Society states there is e-very .prospect oF the show next week proving a success. The splendid rains lately have helped along wonderfully growth in gardens, and a fine show of “mums” is expected. FOOTBALL. A local team goes to Rata and a senior team from Hunterville comes to Halcombe to play Tokorangi, the latter haying made this their home ground. Our juniors—it is the; thirds who are going to Rata —play their firstgame in the competition next Wednesday, when they go to Mart on to play the Athletics.

MUSIC IN SCHOOL. . At the householders’ moo lino- the other evening the headmaster, Mr Caiman, in his annual report... made sueli a stirring appeal lor a musical instrument for the local school, that the chairman, the Rev. To Pungn, immediately started a .subscription list, Avitli the result that by the time, the paper had got round about a third of the cost of a now piano had been promised. TOP-DRESS IXO. “Bo wise—Fertilise!-” is the slogan among farmers nowadays. Not so • long ago it was the few who used artificial manure; now it is the minority who don’t. Every year sees greater quantities received at the local railway station—where men used to huv one ton they now get three. It is said that the fertiliser hill this year of one local sheep man is .-CI2CfD. And it is hound to pay him, for whereas he used, not so long ago, to carry somewhere near 2000 sheep he now carries 3000, and, what is. more, they do better on the same acreage-. PERSONAL. Mr Charles Voss, an old resident of Ha loom be, has been very ill lately, bnt i s now much better. Mr Voss, wlu> is almost four score years, is one of Hnlcombe’s oldest inhabitants, hut saw something oi the. world before Janrtfng in New Zealand. .Born in Germany, he went right through the I’ ranco-Prussian war, after which, he "went to America. Several years’ residence; in the United States failed to reconiclo him in life in the New World, so hp went hack to the Fatherland, where! he joined a band of pilgrims setting out to make a home in New Zealand. They set out from Hamburg in the- sailing vessel Fitzrei teller, and reached this happy land in 1876. For a short while Mr Voss lived in Morton, and then came 'o Holcombe, where he has reeided ever since.

Mr Ray Mnnagh, the youngest son <rf Airs C. Alanagh, is reported to he very ill ip Wanganui, where lie has been working for some time for his brother-in-law, Air AY. J. Francis. Ray. is a, popular young man in these parts, and his many friends are hopeful that he will soon he well again. There is reported to he a slight change for the better in the condition of Mr Gins. Nntzke, who has been very ill for some months. *