OKAIAWA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 10 September 1915, Page 4

OKAIAWA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) HALL SOCIAL. 1 There was a very poor attendance at the social held on Thursday evening in aid of the hall funds. For some time past residents have failed to patronise anything held for this pur- -\ pose. Why this should be so it is hard to understand, +or the hall is a benefit to the whole community. However, those who did attend spent an enjoyable time. The floor was in capital order, and the dance was not allowed to drag. Messrs Laney and B Johns acted a? M.C.'s, while Mrs and Miss Betts supplied the music, which was given gratuitously. KILLED IN ACTION. Great indeed was the sorrow felt in Okaiawa yesterday when vord was received that Trooper George Phillips had been killed at the Dardanelles. The deceased was the only son of Mr B. Phillips, one of our earliest and most respected settlers. He was born in Okaiawa, lived here all his life, and, I believe, was never out of New Zealand until he left with the troops. George was the first Okaiawa boy to enlist, and is the first of our lads to cross the great divide. The sympathy of the whole district goes cut to the bereaved family in their great loss. WHITE FEATHERS. I regret to say that we have in this district at least one of those poor deluded individuals who think it is a good joke to send white feathers. A local settler, and one who has been an indefatigable worker in connection with the Patriotic Committee, has been the recipient of one of these, and naturally feels a little sore over it. Senders of white feathers should have them returned with interest, and perhaps with a little coal tar added.