THE GALL FOR MEN

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144854, 4 December 1915, Page 2

THE GALL FOR MEN

LOCAL MEN FOR THE 11th. The following local men have been 1 selected for the Hth Reinforcements. The men assemble at the old Drill Hall and leave by the mail train on Monday, the 13th instant, for Wellington; INFANTRY. A. Fraser, Puniho. W. F. Mason, Kotare, T. P. M'Kenna, Rahotu. . S. E. Hawke, New Plymouth. K, B. M'Manns, New Plymouth. F. Coldrick, Egmont Village. A. L. M'Allum. New Plymouth. ,T. C. C. Humphreys, Okato. N. A, Hill, New Plymouth. C. A. Butt, Okato. L. O’Donnell, New Plymouth. G. Bou. New- Plymouth. W. iv. Lauchland. New Plymouth. D. Wilson, Okato. A. A. Phillips, New Plymouth. G. L. Whittaker, New Plymouth. W. H. Lowe, New Plymouth. E. G. Harrison, Okato. W. L. Jamieson, Now Plymouth. H. Earue, New Plymouth. C. R. Ihbotson, New Plymouth. H. A. Grooby, New Plymouth. W. Pres!and, New Plymouth. R. Kindherg, New Plymouth.. R. G. Milne. New Plymouth. MOUNTED RIFLES. F. W. Cowling, Tntaraimaka. A. R. Black, Awakino. T. E. Mack, New Plymouth. CV L. Robertson, Awakino. W. Gibson, Ononui. The Sunday School Anniversary of Whiteley Memorial Church will be celebrated to-morrow by special services. at which music prepared for the occasion will ho rendered by a large choir of children. The Rev, A. Reader will be the morning preacher and the Rev. A. B. Chappell the preacher for afternoon and evening. At the afternoon service the children are making gifts of plain cake chocolate for the men at the front, and it is hoped that a large quantity will bo donated.*

A pathetic seen© was witnessed m Bollingen. N.S.W., recently (says the Sydney. Morning Herald). An old dray, drawn by two horses, passed through the town. Seated in the dray were a inan, his wife, and two children. Four years ago they wont from the Manning River to the Dorrigo, and carved out a home in the scrub. Everything was comfortable and looking prosperous until the recent bush fires broke out. The water dose to the house had run out, and the wife, with her two children, wont to a creek some distance away for the purpose of washing clothes. To reach the water it was necessary to cross a ridge. The homestead was hidden from view by this ridge. Having completed her day’s work, the woman returned homewards with her children.- On scaling the. ridge she found that during her absence the fire had swept through the bush and the homestead and all their belongings bad been destroyed. Securing a dray and harness and two horses, the bushand, wife, and children made their way back to the Manning River.

The employment of Zulus for the war is being mooted in the press here (writes a South African correspondent from Pietermaritzburg). They arc hern soldiers, and it is maintained that half a million of them could be got. and that they could be easily drilled ana made otherwise fit by the old Zululand native police, commonly called Manscl’s Nongqai Corps Long-winded and looselimbed, it * is urged that Zulus would bo splendidly adapted for bayonet charges. We are told that some of them are asking: ‘‘What wrong have we done that we are not allowed to fight for our King?” Of course, the colour bar has been broken by the employment of Indians and th© acceptance of Cape coloured men. The policy has always been, with the large preponderance of natives in South Africa, not to give thorn firearms, and the Zulu native police has been one of the few exceptions to this rule. The Germans have a large, well-armed, and useful native force in East Africa .now* fighting for them, and. if it is thought advisable to employ Zulus, that should he their ground, of course, and not Europe, The Army Council has gladly accepted the offer of the Union Government to raise an infantry battalion ot Cape coloured men and two hearer companies of Indians resident in South Africa.