BATTLE OF BULLION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14744, 25 October 1915, Page 8

BATTLE OF BULLION.

GREAT FIGHT FOR HILL £50,006. Popular interest in the forthcoming Battle of the Bullion, in connection with the Wanganui Patriotic Carnival, is'growing daily. Already the executive committee has taken steps to secure the organisation of the working nucleus of the respective armies, ana there is now every prospect that ail the work of initial organisation will be completed iu ample time to enable recruiting to commence in earnest at the date arranged', November Ist,. It is hoped that the four companies of the National Reserve will each orgu-. niae one of the four lecal armies, and the respective Commanders have been approached on the matter. On evening representatives of the Patriotic Committee placed details of the scheme before the members of A. Company, and an enthusiastic response to the Committee’s appeal resulted in a provisional committee being set up to organise a Fighting Army. Similar steps will be taker in connection with the other comj>anii-. ytt their next parade, and an • equal!;.’ sympathetic response Is hoped for. Many members of the Reserve have frequently expressed the wish that the organisation of the Reserve could be applied to sonm reallv useful and practical purpose, an 1 the Battle of the Bullion, the principal object of which is to provide funds f< i our sick and wounded soldiers, provide, the longed-for opportunity. On Saturday evening also the scheme was explained t 1 a large and representative meeting of t 1 • Commercial Travellers’ Club, and Knights of the Road gallantly decid"' to enter the Hs-ts, and put up a big jieb for Hill £50.000. The natives, too, ha> tbe matter under consideration, Mr A. V. Takarangi and other leading representatives of the race having been official’approached and rep nested to organise an army of Rangitiras.