WAIPUKURAU.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7717, 6 May 1916, Page 2

WAIPUKURAU.

(Own Correspondent). Mrs Jack Ormond has handed loti secretary of the Waipukurau Cross Society £2O to he devoted Red Cross material an 1 soldiers’ lun ries. Donations were collected by, Geenty, junr., from the Wallingfoi residents as follows: —For Red Cra material: A. Nolan 10s, A. Hetliui 1 Os, E. Littleton ss, T. Munro ss, Mi Nelson ss, Joe Geenty £1 Is, ’ Thompson 2s (id, M. Delaney 2s (id, little girls 2s (id, P. Sims 2s (id, Mi Cook 2s (id, A. Blackman 2s (id, 1 Bayly 2s fid, J. Johnston 3s, Mrs Lii pus 10s, H. J. Lirapus 10s, .1. Bren aer 10s, D. McMurchie 10s, R. He« ley ss, “Subscriber” ss, H. Tayli ss, C. Bird 7s (id, Mrs .Jack Oman £l, Mr Jack Ormond £5; total, £] 19s. For soldiers’ luxuries: ] Littleton ss, N. Nolan ss, J. Muni 6s, A. Bethune 10s, J. Thompson \ (id, J. Ge'enty £1 Is, K. Nelson 2« 6i Mrs Cook 2s 6d, A. Blackman 2s 6i Mrs Limpus 10s, C. Bird ss, R. Heal ley ss, It. Bayly ss, J. Breinner Ift D. McMurchic 10s, C. Fraser 10s, I Taylor ss, “Subscriber” ss, C. Crad nell ss; total, £7 Is. Other donations are as follow:Mrs Jack Ormond 1 pair socks, Mil Hunter 1 pair socks, Mrs Allwood mil tens and cigarettes. LOYAL TAVISTOCK LODGE, M.U.1.0.0.F. Bro. Bryce, N.G., presided over i fair attendance of members of tli above-named Lodge in the Oddfd lows’ Hall on Thursday night. Afai amount of routine business was deal with. Accounts amounting to £3 were passed for payment. A lengthy communication was n ceived from the secretary of tli Napier branch of the British Madid Association (through the rcsidel medical officer), stating that owingl the heavy demand made on tli<* in«S cal profession through the war mak ing the lot of lodge doctors in the Dominion very strenuous, tli?! appealed to lodge members to liglitd their labors by acting strictly to tli rules, re hours of consulting, etc. 1 was decided to accede to the Medici Association’s request, and ineinbai are to be notified accordingly, thd present agreeing that the request cl the association was a reasonable one Bro. W. A. Chambers, IM’.G.Mj was welcomed on his safe return froi the N.Z. branch meeting held r cently at Greymouth. The brotil gave an interesting account of tl delegates’ experiences in hospital) Westport, where it appears t| Hawke’s Bay delegates were the vi tims of a pleasant bombardment, d pecially our local member and tk Napier member, the member frt Ormoiidville evidently acting as d pire. Delegates are sending a written J port on the business transacted i that meeting to the next meeting ' the Hawke’s Bay District, wW should prove very interesting I Hawke’s Bay members. Bro. Jno. Smith, N.Z. Grandmastt in the course of his address at Off mouth, stated that no fewer thi eleven hundred Oddfellows of the N branch had enlisted and gone to tl front. This should be gratifying' Oddfellows, especially when we tl into consideration that several Id and influential districts still renw outside our N.Z. branch and will I>*j no doubt also sent their quota to tl front, thus showing that o<ldfelicj act up to the prefix of all M.U. Lm| branches, i.e., Loyal. Bro. Slatford, P.G., was nominilj for tin l position of Lecture Master* the lodge.