OTAKEHO.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 10 July 1917, Page 4

OTAKEHO.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

PERSONAL

I It is with pleasure I learn the return. , home of Private Geo. Herbert, who has. i just been invalided home after having; j "done his bit" and been wounded in • the battle of the Somme. "Your Own" j is pleased to record that Private HerI bert is, to outward appearances, looking; j even better than when h.e went away. I If "Your Own" could continue to-w-rite personals such as /the foregoing,, it would indeep be a pleasant task, but. alas, it is my painful duty to chronicle the fact that "Mr and Mrs T. Dixon, of , Otakeho.. have received word that their eldest son, James Arthur Dixon, died of wounds in France on dune 20th. Later information supplied informs them thathe died on the date stated on his arrival at the second dressing station, be- , hmd the firing line. Arthur was well '-known and mosib highly respected heo-e, and remembered as a quiet , industrious; I and painstaking lad, and his death at ! tho early age of 22 years, cuts short a prospect of a useful life. His younger mother is again in hospital in England' to undergo another operation to have some more of the eleven bullets extracted from different parts of his body. His escape was indeed miraculous, as onebullet took his eye out, and another cut a portion of his chin off, and at third, after passing through his pay book and Testament, lodged just inside- . bis ribs on the left side, and no less ! than three have been extracted from. ■ his shoulder and arms. I Mr and Mrs Steele have received wordf that their son, Sergt. Jack Steele, is pro- , grossing favorably from wounds in theface, received in the battle of Messines This will be a pleasing item to the hos& .or Jack's friends.