Y.M.C.A. WAR WORK FUND.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14869, 18 September 1918, Page 2

V.M.C.A. WAR WORK FUND.

Air. JEL B. Jackson acknowledges the following subscriptions: —A, os; Church 'of Christ Sewing Guild, £5 ; T. Carter (Defence Rifle Club's first prize). £2; Mrs. S. B. White, 10s; E.B. (August subscription), ss; Upper Neudorf Patriotic Committee, per H. It. Bcnsemann, £22 8s 6d. •

Leaving with the Fifth Reinforcements, Captain J. MacMorran (lulled in .action; saw service on GaUipoii, and ,was later invalided to Lemnos, and ,Apui, 1936, and was wounded in Hay, | -M/V! ox '-t. taking a good recovery reioin.ed his battalion. In pre-war days Captain MacMorran wa* an enthusiastic Jerntonal and ono of the best shots- of i ins company (p. an d T. Rifles Yv'elliro*-■ ton). ■ *= \ ■Lientfenan-t-6-tonel William Scott :Pennycock, lifted in action, was borr. in Scotland 45 years ago. He arrived at Bale]titha in 18S7, and was apprentt xf d f««. f, print£nS trade in-.the office oi Jie "Clutha .Leader," of which organ he subsequently became proprietor H<< joined the 10th New Zealand Contingent tor feouth Africa, and left as commanding officer with the rank of major. Enlisting for service in the present • war, ho sailed in ..August,-.1915, as captain, and in command of the Otago Company, 6th Reinforcements. He served at Galiipoli and took part- in the evacuation. While on the Peninsula he was recommended for promotion, and shortly after the return of the Forces to Egypt he was promoted to the rank of mnjor, and given command of the Otago Company in the newlv-f o ?iiW Pioneer Battalion, In April, 1916, he Vent to France, and was mer>-Honpd in despatches for good work with the Pioneers Tn February, 1917; he was struck in the wrist In- a.stray.bullet, which permanently disnhled t-h« Mt hand to some extent. Subsenuently he^ was appointed- A^Rif^n* Provost Marshal W tho • New Zealand Threes in T io idon. La+Rst ndvice from Mm st?W that hp had been promoted to liputennnt-polonnl, .and giver, command of a battalion in TJYance. T»n» late LiP^ten^nt^Colo^^l TVnnvcock lonv ns a f ara i] v o f 3 j x _ T ] }o eldest pon, Hobfrt. is on liome pnrvioe with tho Canpdia n Forcop; and the ,- second ko>». Jack', is at T/fnroln Agricnlturnl Colleco. Mif«! l^nnycock anrf tlie three youngest children' reside at Balclutha.

Sir l)*»rek Konpel, Master of the x>yal Ho'visehold, referring to the iturning of the people, says :—"Wo are H into line at Buekincham Palace with in rations, and I mn snyina no moro im what is true when I tell you that never knew any people so thoroughly sn.scientious in this matter as the King nd Queen. They are simply wonderful nd accept the restrictions" with most oticeable cheerfulness, taking renl leasure in 'he.aring their share of the >od hardships."