LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 64, 17 August 1944, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Maori Tribal Committee will hold a dance in the Hapuku Hall on August 26, in connection with their war effort.

The thirteen bottles of beer confiscated in the raid on Saturday night in the vicinity of the Drill Hall, have been forwarded to the hospital. A dance will be held in the P.W.D. Social Hall, Beach Road, to-night, at which several men from overseas will be the guests of the evening. An enjoyable evening is assured those who attend.

Pilot Officer Derek Roy Trolove lost his life when an aircraft he was flying crashed near a North Island flying station on August 11. His next-of-kin is his wife, Mrs O. T. Trolove, ‘Christchurch.

The Soldiers’ Entertainment Committee will conduct a dance in the Drill Hall on Saturday night, when returned men will be welcomed. You know what our men have done overseas, dont‘t say you cannot spare a little time to welcome them home after four years in the battle line.

Air and Mrs George Boyd, who attended the diamond wedding celebration of Mr and Mrs Alex Boyd (father and Brother), left for Mosgiiel yesterday. Air Boyd is manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Mosgiel.

Send along your donation for the 1944 Quota of the Patriotic Appeal. Donations be left with the Kaikoura Supply Stores, A. E. Lee, F. H. Hayward, Beath and Co., Dalgety and Co., N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op., Pyne, Gould, Guinness, the Star Office, or the Bank of New Zealand, who will give you official receipts. Ask the boys who have returned how they appreciated gifts, etc., from the fund, they will tell you. Let your donations be snappy and generous.

Up to midnight on Friday, 16,541 wounded men had been brought by air from France to England. In addition to British Army personnel, there were Royal Air Force and Navy wounded, United States Army personnel, and some wounded prisoners of war. The figure of 16,541 was reached when 908 British and American wounded were transported on Friday—the highest nun|ber on any day since the first air evacuation of wounded on June 12. A medical officer said the knowledge speedy evacuation was possible for the wounded had a powerful effect on the troops’ morale.

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