OUR BOYS IN KHAKI

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1918, Page 5

OUR BOYS IN KHAKI

SAPPER J. S. JONES. Cable advice has been received from v Palestine that Sapper J. S. Jones, 01 South. Beach, is suffering from malaria fever. , LIEUTENANT LAWN. Lieutenant Nicholas Lawn, of New Zealand Timnellers, left. New Zealand in : : October, 1917 y and after that time was . witkhia unit nntil a brief break in 1918. He left France on June 22nd on sick leave, and arrived in New Zealand again on October 22nd. During his trip through the Panama Canal, while in Colon on the Atlantic side, he met Harry Garland, son of Mr H. Garland, for many years in Maori Creek, who is quartermaster in the Colon Hospital. He tried to get away to the front three times, but was unsuccessful although he went through the SpanishAnierican war, and served with the American forces in the Phillipines. He wished to be Temembered to all friends on the West Coast. Lieutenant Lawn, accompanied by Mrs Lawn (nee Miss Hill) left for Hanmer Springs this morning", for health purposes. PRIVATE CAIRNS. Mrs. Cairns, Reefton, received / -word to-day that her son, Private Alan Cairns, was received! into hospital in France on Bth October, suffering 1 with contusions of the knee. This'young soldier enlisted with the 37th Reinforcements and his many friends in Reefton will wish him a complete recovery.