FARMER BURNED TO DEATH.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14653, 6 March 1918, Page 2

FARMER BURNED TO DEATH.

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Hokitika, March 5. Thomas Meharry, jnn., 43 years of age and single,.'a "farmer of Upper Kckatahi, -was burned to death curly this morning, his hut being destroyed.

The great stortrtge of slaughtermen was referred to at- a sitting of tutTkifd Wellington \ Military"' Service JBoardi.jThe. representatives ef one ci:.tiio nieat companies told tho beard that in-stead-61 120—a full complement—his firm row had only 08 slaughtermen.The tally was ttus reduced froiu"i>jOt), to about* i 5200.

I Herewim \\fucarua, or Yvaitotara, son of Iwiora Wakarua, was killed en the French front about a month ago.. When Herewini decided to go to the front (says the "Stratford Post") he and his fathsr talked the matter over, and the later said that as, in the ordinary course of events, he had fewer years to live than his son, and as the ■son had just completed a very goodj •'viuention, it would be better for Iwiwa to go. This proposal, however, i was not acceptable to the son, who persuaded the father to let him go, the father promising that if the son were killed, ho would go to take his place. True to his word Iwiora left for camp last week, where he is now in training to take his place in the great fight.

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