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Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 949, 19 September 1918, Page 22

There are many in Wellington who will note with pleasure that Percy R. Pyet-Smith, of the New 'Zealand Medical Corps, has been awarded the Military Medal. In the! warehouse of Abbott, Oram and Co., on the soccer field and in the various walks of life Percy Pye-Smith was always a sterling good fellow, glad to do you a good turn if he could, but certainly never to stoop to' do a mean one. Both Jack and Percy Pye-Smith were early volunteers for the war, and their youngest brother made the supreme sacrifice in it. Mr. R. Pyei-Smith, the father of the family, is re-visiting Wellington this week. He was for many years a draftsman in the Railways Department and associated there with Mr. R. Triggs, now Public Trustee.

By the accidental dropping of a letter an innocent "Town Talk" par. in last week's issue was transformed into an insulting statement that never entered the writer's mind. The phrase was: "Surely Sir James Allen has prospects of the war ending before 1960 !" But in its passage into type the "e'.'.was accidentally dropped out of "Surely/' and an injustice was thus done to Sir James.