BACK FROM THE WAR

Otago Witness, Issue 3259, 30 August 1916, Page 42

BACK FROM THE WAR

NEW ZEALANDERS RETURNING. WELLINGTON, August 28. The following are returning by tho Arawa, which is duo about Soptombcr 1: OTAGO MOUNTED RIFLES. Wm. Brown, bushman. Sergeant-major Valentino Marshall, law clerk. Francis Joseph Tamblyn, fruit gardener. Sergeant .John Ashley, England. OTAGO BATTALION. Sergeant William Trickcy Woods, turner and fitter. George Ram.sbotham, farmer. Arthur Bernard islpicer, bushman. NEW ZEALAND EIELD ENGINEEBS. Wm. Harry Mason, telegraphist. Horace Moore-Jones, artist. NEW ZEALAND IUFLE BRIGADE. Edward Mallory Gallagher, groom. Birkett German, plasterer. MAOBI CONTING ENT. Q.M.S. Edward Westbrook, wheelwright-Sergeant-major Frederick Holmes, police officer. Lance-corporal Frank Payne, farmer. Sergeant Baieley Leger, boat builder. Henry Frood, sailor. There are also 59 Xiue Islanders. The following are returning on duty: — NEW ZEALAND HIFLE EBIGADE. Sergeant-major Maurice Archibald Stcdman. NEW ZEALAND AEMY NUBSING SEBYICE. Siister Ethel Watkins Taylor. Sister S MacUonald. NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORrS. Dr W. Marshall MacDonald. ESCORTING BLIND BBOTKER. Miss Woods. SAILORS' DEPENDENTS' RELIEF FUND. THE NAVY LEAGUE'S EFFORT. Previously acknowledged £7923 8 5 Outram School children's entertainment (per Outram Patriotic Committee) 16 4 9 Seacliff Staff Club, monthly donation 7 0 0 Per the Otago Daily Times— Outram Volunteer Fire Brigade, proceeds of soci7il 2 15 2 "Tommy" 0 5 0 Total £7949 13 4 PATRIOTIC GIFTS. The Pukepiki and Sandymount branch of the Women's Patriotic Association sent in this month 71 pairs socks, 62 service bags, 30 handkerchiefs, 20 face towels, 6 tea towels, 5 balaclavas, 14 housewife* for tho Lady Liverpool fund, 42 new articles for the Lady French fund, a Belgian parcel, and also 40 little dresses for selling at tho tulip garden fete MIDDLEMAR CH PATRIOTIC SOCIETY. The following are thanked for donations towards the Dominion Parcels' Fund: Mrs W. Elliott 2s 6d, "Winsome and Gwen" 2s 6d, Mrs Blakely 2s 6d. "Wellwisher" 2s 6d, Miss N. Ross- 2s 6d, Miss R. Rosa 2s 6d.' It was Mr Blakely, not Glekely, who gave a. donation of £2 2s. EED CROSS WORK. OVERSEAS CLUB STREET COLLECTION. On the 24th the Overseas Club conducted a street collection for the purpose of raising funds, part to be devoted to the purchase of extra comforts for tho men at the front, and part to go to the purchase of wool to be supplied to the school children for the purpose of enabling them to knit balaclavas, socks. etc. A large number ol Indies offered their services as col-

lectors. Starting at 8 o'clock in the morning, they worked hard all day and on to 8 o'clock in the evening, a Bum of £237 6s 8d rewarding their efforts. A crimson ribbon badge, bearing in gold letters the words " Pozieres, 1916, New Zealand. Remember our boys," was sold at nil the stands. Theso badges—for which nothing lower than a shilling was accepted —met with a good demand right through The first issue totalled 1200 badges, but theso wore soon disposed of, and another issue of 1000 was required.