THE WAR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17319, 20 May 1918, Page 6

THE WAR.

THE RED CEOSS FUND (0IAG0). j I THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES LIST. Previously acknowledged £739 6 5 "Bob" 10 0 Total £740 c 5 GOING TO THE I-lIONT. At tho conclusion of the football match, Pirates v. Ciuvirsity A oil the Caledonian Ground on Saturday, tho Pirates team met in their dressing room for the purpose of bid<iinjr iarowoil to Uireu First Uracc players— L. Ellison, D. Ji Cameron, and iVi. J,. Smitu—who will go into camp on Tuosdiy witu the 42nd Reinforcements. Air S. G. Styche (club cax>taui) wislied the three players the best of luck, and expressed the hopo that they would soon return and lie abio to occupy their old positions in th.j teiun. TJie team then sang "For They ji.ro Jolly Good Fellows," alter which the three volunteers briefly returned their thanks for the good wishes extended to them. SEND-OFF TO FOIITY-SECOND REINFORCEMENTS. To-morrow tho 42nd Reinforcements will leaven Dunedin for camp, and will be accorded tho usual official send-off. Everybody now realises the vastness of tho struggle, and all that depends on our success 011 tho field of battle. Close o n 200 men will leave from tho Dunedui group, aTMi it is fitting that the public should give them an enthusiastic send-off. The men will parado at the Kensington Drill Hall at 9 a.rrL, and after the roll call and a distribution of pocket Bibles, they will be addressed by Colonel Smith, V.D., commanding the Otago Infantry Brigade. At 10 o'clock, headed by the St. Kilda Band, they will leave the drill hall, going along Anderson Bay road into Princes street to the north side of the Octagon, and then down Stuart street to tho railway station, where the official send-off will take place. The speakers there will be tho Mayor (Mr J. J. Clark) and Staff-captain Gunn (Salvation Ariny). Relatives and friends are advised to say their good-byes beforo tho men fall in, as no other opportunity will be available. Employers are requested to, as far as possible, give their employees aji opportunity to take part in the farewell. The ceremony at the station should begin about 10.20 a.m. CAVERSHAM KINDERGARTEN PATRIOTIC CLUB. There was a good Attendance at the meeting of the Caversham Kindergaren Patriotic Club on Thursday. The following work was sent to the Earlv Settlers' Hall: 147 service cloths, 299 handkerchiefs, 6 shirts, 31 pairs of socks, 1 balaclava, 2 pairs of mittens, 4 pairs of cuffs, and 10s 6d in money. ACTING-CAPTAIN vPEMBER- ' TON. Mr O. B. Pemberton, secretary of tho Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, has just, recsived a letter from his brother, Acting-captain T. J. Pemberton, formerly of the Lyttelton Times and Otago Daily Times staffs, who had a while previously returned to France after recovering from wounds. ' Acting-captain Pemberton, who is attached to the had again been in the firing line for a time when he was sent to a training collego to qualify for his captain's commission. Here ho met several old scholars of the Christchurch Boys' High School, who were also undergoing training-. Particular mention is made m Acting-captain Pemberton's letter of the immense amount of work which is now being undertaken in various branches of army service bv tho women's auxiliaries, thus releasing many men for duties nearer the firing line. In the course of a very newsy budget, Acting-captain Pemberton relates _ a remarkable coincidence in connection with his return to the firing line. With his regiment lie was ordered: to hold a position, which was the exact place whore ho had been previously wounded. He had no sooner arrived than the Iluns commenced shelling the pla.ee, and one shell fell where Acting-captain Pemberton was with his company. Fortunately it was only a gas shell, and not a high explosive, but even so, it was a welcome that would rather have been disnensed with.