PERSONAL ITEMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7921, 21 August 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Corporal C. H. Wilkie, yi been spending ten days’ leave!, district, returned to camp y^ Mr and Mrs Frank Moeller ,t Masonic Hotel, Napier, ce’|T their silver wedding on Snturday Mr Justice Edwards is still j, Thomdon Private Hospital, but” ported to be making an excellJ covery from his recent illness.” Advice has been received tW vate M. R. Grenside, son of J( t , Grenside, of Hastings, and f 0 1! of Waipawa, has been wound, action on August Ist. The death is announced fr otl ] edin of the Rev. William Eo M| well known throughout the l),, and formerly Grand Secretary s Freemasons, at the age of in came to New Zealand in 1858 missionary to the Wairarapa S(i Colonel D. J. M’Gavin, N.J who has been awarded the D.B the well-known Wellington » practitioner. He left New Zeal* a Lieut.-Colonel in command of Stationary Hospital, N.Z.E.F. i, 1915, and has been serving u front ever since. He was pm, temporary colonel in October, U Corporal George Johnson, o( lington, apparently does not much sympathy for ‘ ‘ consci® objectors ’’and other of that ill a letter written from France it parents he says: “In a paper tat the boys got from Wellington L where four or five men doing del® at Buckle-street had refused to i because they were not getting « food. Well, they want to send ti chaps over here as soon as the; and then they might have somaj to growl about. Compare the foj mg list of rations which w e !» with those with which they were satisfied. We are issued the folloi rations every 24 hours:—Meal, fresh, or 6oz. tinned, bread fo, hard biscuits Boz., 3oz. cheese, bacon, 2oz. sugar, or 3oz. jam, oil honey, soz. Machonichie’s, }oi,| ter, l-50oz. mustard, l-360z, peg 1-16 tin of condensed milk, tea,; to every 100 men. We are all ( lent with what we get, though, course, we would like more. Weki we are getting the best that cat obtained, and we just grin and la