JOTTINGS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3239, 12 April 1916, Page 52

JOTTINGS.

Chaplain-captain H. L. Blamircs, who is at Rotorua, has greatly improved in health since hia recent convalescence in England, and will return to the front with the next reinforcements. In Masterton a picture entitled “Anzac” was put up to auction on behalf of one of the Queen Carnival candidates, and realised £l5B 3s. The final bid was £SO, made by Sir Walter Buchanan, who presented the picture to Private F. O’Connor D.C.M., son of Mr and Mrs P. O’Connor-, of Middle road, Allenton, Ashburton. Captain W. A. Fairclough, R.A.M.O. who is attached to the hospital ship Manama, hag written to Mr C. J. Parr, M.P., stating that he has visited England. Captain Fairdough said he had inspected English, Australian, and Indian hospital ships, but preferred the Marama to them all. The following additional donations have been received by the Middlemarch Patriotic Society: —Mrs R. Walker ss, Miss Scorgie 10s, Mrs Messent ' ss, Mrs Renton 3s, Miss Dawson 10s, Miss Millar 2s, Mrs Millar ss, Mr Fowler ss. Mrs R. N. Elliott’s donation of £1 was credited to Mrs R. M‘Elliott in Wednesday’s issue.. Mr D. Stewart (Mayor of Balclutha), when speaking at a patriotic concert on Monday evening, took an opportunity to welcome, in a few appropriate remarks, Sergeant Gold to Balclutha, and referred to the pleasure the people had in counting him a fellow-citizen. The speaker also congratulated the new recruits, and said there were two families represented among them to wdiom he must refer—the Joucs family, of Rosebank, who had sent two sons, and wore now sending another eon, Oswald, and the Halls, of Riverside, who had sent and lost one son, and were now sending hia brother Lawrence.

It was stated by Colonel Chaffey on tho 4th inst., at tho eend-oft" to the Kaiapol quota of tho Fifteenth Reinforcements, that 700 men out of a strength of IWO in the 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment had enlisted for active eervjee.