Y.M.G.A. GYMNASIUM.

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 870, 9 March 1917, Page 7

Y.M.G.A. GYMNASIUM.

Among those who have made the •supreme {sacrifice - in .• their country's cause, fighting against : the y foe -in ' sfrahce, is Private Albert Henry Macjaulay, of Wellington, one of the three .Macaulay brothers who have long "been identified with theatrical work' in this •city. Albert was the ' usher at the family circle of tlite Grand Opera Souse,, and for his success in" getting public, to "sit closer" on crush

nights lie came to be familiarly known as "the champion packer." • # * & '' • u At an early stage of the war he ushered himself into camp—for Albert Henry "was never a shirker when there was work to do—and in a scrap "somewhere in France" at the-end "of September he fell fighting gallantly. Theatre patrons hare greatly missedhim already, for he was of a very eonr-

Physical Culturefand'Gymnastic Classes. New season commences Monday, March 12th

France -with, a gun-shot wound in the loft thigh. Everyone -.-who knew Mm liked Dan. • Ho . was .. merry, bright, genial, would go .to 110 end of troubla to serve a. friend, and had. a healthy, ' wholesome . love of outdoor sports. ; Rather more than ten years- ago he • went -to Australia to practise liis- pro- - fession. He settleddown in- Adelaide,' and, from there eiilivSted with the Aus-1 ; traKan infantry when the war ;broke out. He. lias been in- the fighting line some time, and -a letter from him by last mail, stated that he iiad just had a bullet _■ through . his steel helmet: Now he_ is- in hospital with .. that - woundedthigh. Miss of T?almerston.North, is a. siste-r. Let us hope Dan will make, a good recovery. [Vain hope ! We re-lift this leaden line. to chronicle the later news just - arrived ■ that poor Dan is dead. Peace "to the ashes of - the gallant boy.] " - ■ Mi'. .Joliii Robert Cole.'-who passed - away the other day in a-» private hospital -in Wellington, Jin the prime of }ife r aged 46, was a capable journalist, an. ..excellent _ Maori interpreter, and a very companionable good-natured man. He was well known in Gisborne and Masterton.. In - fact, his -first introduction, to readers of- the New Zealand : Free was through the medium of our , £ 'Christmas- Annual," in which appeared his jocular verse hitting off ' with perfect good-humour tlie foibles "of leading, Wairarapa peonle.

teous disposition. A brother of the de- J ceased: returned wounded this week by the hospital ship Manama, and another brother is a well-known bill-poster in town. - . : ' _ v ' ft " Xews to hand that. Corporal Dan Seanlan. an old St."Path's College boy who studied dentistry in Wellington with Messrs. Bridge and Andrews; is hors de combat at the war-front in