FROM THE BOYS

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8053, 11 July 1918, Page 3

FROM THE BOYS

jfIATION OF GIFTS.

L,|ish mail which reached J Monday evening the j the Ladies’ Patriotic Reived a batch of letters the f ront acknowledging gift of tenjtjl notes. oV ER THE TOP. I thank you for your very which came to hand by ( jl f M writes Sergeant J. , *jll come in very handy ( tt little comforts, also a u No doubt you know now, and I might say .|, a ving the best of times, most «>f us are still smill,ave been right in the -meet'the heaviest fight,{he past month, and our proved themselves worthy praise. This has been perience of going over the known to the boys as hags. ’ At first one has it, but I know what I ff r d<> —attack every time. 0 f life here are very hard we never complain. It d, the trouble. We are all pvard to and hoping the far off. I am at present but am more fortunate •ates, as we signallers have r nt dug-out and well down t front line is very muddy a s it has rained a good ' t but that is nothing new, i been over here about six Hand everywhere we go it P but mud. I have met a trr of hoys from the old f I came across here, hut jtill a few I have not inanri in touch with. I have unlucky with my parcels Out of about twenty sent b received four so far, so rar way of sending a gift CHILDHKN’S interest. If. P. Moroney writes:— signed by Miss Doris id a postal note for 10s ilast evening, and I beg to both very much for same, pleasing to know that even fhildren think of us out in home part of the world, ild like you to express my this young writer.” writing to heartily thank lly for their gift of a 10s It. You earn the praise of its for your efforts to make ilittlc more comfortable for -Private S. Mawson. id to the point—“ Received ir postal note for 10s, and iks for same. Every good pur society and to its volunhs." —Private E. W. Anstis. are that we Waipawa hoys iflv lucky in having such a iftv to look after us, for as r food is very dear here on rf the distance it has to i the scarcity of transports in? but materials of war. ybe a possibility of the Hun i tied by Christmas time, and I , i you that none of we hoys nr, as it is getting awfully i ns, and besides 1 have lost the mates I started with.”8. C. Pepper. ODOLD WAIPAWA.” i Harry Limhrick acknowktter from Cecil Watson, and Its the scheme for interesting dchildren in the welfare of He mentions having met E. C. Waldrom, S. Delaney, T. 1 Coe, and Coles (Onga), all to* but anxiously waiting line to come when they can • “{food old Waipawa.” Moments were also re- . m Corporal G. R. Foulds, j l Liddell, P. Cook, A. S. tad H. McCormick, iof appreciation have been h the school children from R. Came, F. Cook, J. CochR°hh, L. Hemmingsen, A. Wooster, J. Latham, C. lE. Bihhy, A. Donghi, C. ■d C. Waldrom, Riflemen E. I Fleming, S. Pepper and 4 CorporaI C. Whittington, b E. Clark, Leutennnts G. ■U. Watts.