LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7922, 23 August 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Auckland Police Court on Tuesday, David Henry Simmons, who admitted that being a bookmaker, he made bets inlQueen street, was lined £75 on each of two charges. The Waipawa district draft of the 33rd Reinforcements entrained for camp by the mail train this morning. There was a fair attendance of citizens to bid them farewell and cheer them on their way. Ensign Chalker will visit Waipawa on Monday next and deliver an illustrated address in the Salvation Army Hall. The programme will be interspersed with songs and recitations. Refreshments will be provided, and a collection taken up.

A mixed team of Waipawa footballers travelled to Tikokino yesterday and played a match against the local team, suffering defeat by 5 points to nil. Father Bergin gave every . satisfaction as referee. A dinner and dance followed the match.

It is expected that the Omakere Post and Telephone Office will be closed permanently at the end of the month. The present postmistress, who has discharged the duties for some years, is relinquishing the work, anc is no one is forthcoming to fill the vacant position the office must consequently be closed. Most of the settlers are connected with the Telephone Exchange and receive their mails in private bags, so will not be affected, but those who have not these services will have to make arrangements for re2eiving their correspondence. Mr J. J. Boyd, Mayor of Onehunga. and proprietor of the Onehunga Zoo, was charged before Mr Fraser, S.M., at Auckland on Tuesday that he voted at a meeting of the Borough Council on a matter in which he had a direct or pecuniary interest, namely, the rescinding of a by-law which virtually concerned the existence of the Zoo. The Magistrate said defendant acted in his own interests and insisted on pressing the matter against the wishes of the majority of the councillors. Defendant was convicted and fined £3O with costs. Leave to appeal was granted. “I would hae ye t’ understan’ that Urn no appealing for mysel’,” said r. sturdy young miner as he stepped into the witness box before the Second Otago Military Service Board at Riverton, says the “Western Star.’ ! “I’ve enlisted three times and beer passed each time, and, because I’m f. coal miner, I’ve not got away. Nov that I’ve been called in the ballot, what are ye going to do with me?’ The chairman (Mr Day, S.M.): “Oh we’ll give you a chance to get away. Will Saturday do you?” “Yes: whenever you like,” replied the witness. Captain Barrett: “You arc the sorb of man we ‘are looking for. and we will soon see you fixed up.” PERSONAL ITEMS. Private H. Saunders, son of Mr C Saunders, of Waipukurau who was reported wounded on the 31st July, is now included in the seriously ill list. Mr Saunders received word on Tuesday that the wound received by Private Saunders is in the neck.

Mrs W. Ireland received advice from the Defence Department, on Tuesday, that her son Walter had been admitted to the Walton-on-Tharnes Hospital, suffering from periostetes. Previous to this he had been in a hospital in France for five months, suffering from rheumatism. Sergeant Hamilton Lindsay, who prior to enlisting in the 9th Reinforcements was employed in the Waipawa branch of the Bank of New Zealand, is on a brief visit to the town renewing old acquaintances. He saw considerable service in Egypt and then went to France. He was in the Somme offensive, coming through unscathed, but at Fleurs he was badly wounded in the right foot, a jagged piece of iron (which he retains as an interesting memento) entering tlu flesh and cutting the tendons. Mrs A. Breuer, of Waipawa, has received advice that her eldest son. Private Joseph Charles Breuer, has been killed in action in France. Private Breuer left with the 17th Reinforcements, and had seen a considerable amount of active service when he received his fatal wound. He had just turned 40 years of age. His wife died about three years ago, and he leaves a young family of eight, the eldest being 15 years. Mrs Breuer and the bereaved little ones will have the heartfelt sympathy of the community in the irreparable loss which has fallen upon them.