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Otago Witness, Issue 3430, 9 December 1919, Page 63

PATRIOTIC AND RECRUITING COMMITTEE. A meeting of the Patriotic and Recruiting Committee was held in the secretary's board room on Tuesday, 2nd inst. . Lieu-tenant-colonel Stoneham presided. It was resolved to send a message of sympathy to Mrs J. Ruston in regard to the death of her husband. The Chairman stated that tho meeting had been called to wind up the business of the Recruiting Committee. The Secretary submitted a statement of the receipts and payments in connection with tho fund, showing a credit of £3O lis 6d. Mrs Macfie moved —"That tin's committee, before disbanding, wishes to place on record tho valuable and self-sacrificing work done by the chairman (Lieutenantcolonel Stoneham)." The mover stated that in the early stages of the wa~r his services were invaluable, and until conscription came into force he spared neither his timo nor his_ energy in an endeavour to obtain recruits for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. —Tho motion was carried unanimously. A special vote of thanks was accorded to the secretary for his services to the committee.

1 — A professional boxer was badly beaten in a sparring match, and carried to his bed in an exhausted and melancholy condition. up, doctor," pleaded the defeated warrior's wife. "He's gettin' low in his mind, and when he's li'.ie that you've no idea how hard it is to wait on him. He's worse than a bear with toothache." "What can I say that will please him asked the doctor. "You might just tell him, in an offhand way, that the man as licked him is mighty bad in the 'orspital, and that they inay have to hold a post-mortem on him any minute now," was the solemn suggestion.