LETTER FROM A MOKOIA BOY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 October 1916, Page 5

LETTER FROM A MOKOIA BOY

Secon.'l-Lieut. J. Catchpole, son of Mr and Mrs. A. B. Catehpoie, of Mokoia, who recently received his commission ss Second Lieutenant( writes interestingly from somewh^/e in Fiance, on the anniversary of his leaving Gallipoli. He says, inter alia, that feeling among the men of the army is one of strong confidence. He is very scathing in his condemnation of the men who do not. realise the, duty they owe to their country and show it by enlisting. With his letters came a copy of the "souvenir edition" or the Mokoian, being a record of the early stages of the journeyines of the 4th Battalion N.Z.B. (E.L.0.) H was published on board an H.M. N.Z. transport in February, 1916, and is a publication full of interest and-amuse-ment. The literary matter, which it is s-aid was edited by the late Sergt. R. I-L. Aa-ioit, is singularly good and full |of point. A list of the officers/ noncoms., «-nd men is given, and it. is with a feeling of sadness one~ notices the. I number of good men who have made the great sacrifice, or have been wounded in the great offensive in France..