FOR KING AND COUNTRY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17283, 26 September 1916, Page 5

FOR KING AND COUNTRY

FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSO-

CIATION'S STAFF

SEVENTY-EIGHT NAMES ON ROLL

OF HONOUK

The staff of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury has established a patriotic fund of its own, into which £1335 17s 2d has been paid; concerts given by the staff choral society and sales of flags have realised about £1765, and the association's efforts in connection with the Queen Carnival contest accounted for £1654, making a total of £4754 17s 2d. In addition, tho association's ladies sewing guild lias manufactured large quantities of soldiers' garments, and donations have been given to different patriotic funds. „ . . . . Members of the staff at Christehurch and the branches who have enlisted number seventy-eight, and comprise, all die men eligible for active service. From the beginning of tho war there was a. strong desire on tho part of all the single men of tho staff to fight for their country, and the following list is evidence of their loyalty;— Major Percv John Overton; Leonard Godfrey ' Marsh, Ashburton; William Butters, '•■' Rangiora; Robert A. Foubister, Rangiora; George Arthur Hamilton, Rangiora; James Stewart, Christehurch; Albert Henry Warner, Rangiora; Gerald Leahy, Rangiora; George Guthrie, Christehurch; Robert George Hall, Christehurch; Walter A. Hndcn Rangiora; Paul Frederick Dawson, Christehurch; William Arthur Lulhaiu, Christehurch; Walter Cook Prossor, Christehurch; John Hudstith Hunt, Christehurch; Cyril Douglas Dallisou. Christehurch: William James Dunsford, Christehurch; Robert Cecil Walker, Christehurch; Arthur Kalder' Smith, Christehurch; John Joseph Wooler, Christehurch: Sydney John Mann, Christehurch: Arthur K. Bell, Christchurch ; Herbert David Jones, Leoston; Alexander Ford Cormody, Christehurch; Richard John C. Mann, Christehurch; Walter Robert M'Callum, Christehurch; George Frederick Earnshaw. Christehurch; Percy Alan Saville, Christehurch; James Harding Jones, Leeston; Gertrude- Emily Orango, Christehurch; Albert John Boakss. Christehurch: Eustace Arthur Clay, Christehurch; Arthur John Bowden, Hawardcn; Martin Cathcart Black, Hawarden; Stephen Churchill Hamilton, Christehurch; Floyd Morr Lilloy Shcppard, Christehurch; Muurice James Turnbull, Christehurch; Gowan Stuart Taylor. Locston; Victor Hunter Main, Leesbm; Walter George Toombs, Leeston: Felix Rognault Brown, Asburton; Cecil Leonard Ardley, Christehurch; HaTold Holm Bias, Christchurch; George Bennington, Christehurch; Alan Cecil Barker. Hawarden; Frank Gourlay Tohnie, Rangiora; Harry Gilchrist, Oxford; Robert Gordon Silcock. Ashburton; Bruce Glover Hiclrinboitom, Christehurch; Andrew Duncan Frsser, Rangiora; Arthur Stuart Griffiths, Rangiora; Hilton Corich Tasker, Christehurch: Charles William M'Keegan, Ashburton; Clarence Robert Tovey Ashburton; William Timms, Christchurch; Alfred Gordon L. Mardon, Raii--nora; Thomas Edwju Craven, Christchurch: Waller James Gibson Hughes, Christehurch; Percival Raymond Jones, Christehurch; Robert Leslie Anderson, Christehurch; Alexander Gunn Poison, Christehurch; Leslie Ernest H. Hughes, Christehurch; Sidney Culverhouse, Ashburton; Walter Reginald Hammond, Ashburton; Orry Moore. Ashburton; Robert Alexander Collie, Rangiora; Louis Wilkie Menzies Christehurch: Joseph Michael Cassin, Christehurch; Arthur Downes Harrison, Christehurch; Tosswell Harry Vennell, Christehurch; Harold Willoughy lhomas, Christehurch; Albert Junes Parrie, Kaikoura- Leo. Gilbert Donohue, Christehurch; Robert Hamilton. Christehurch; Frank Smith, Christehurch; James V. Broome, Lyttcltoh; Forbes K. Taylor; Harry Weir.