Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 06, Issue 95, 3 August 1943, Page 4

Local and General

Cricket Meeting To-morrow Cricket enthusiasts, are reminded of the general meeting which takes place to-morrow evening with a view to maintaining interest in the ganie throughout tlie coming season. Five Minute Speeches An announcement which met with a roar of approbation at last Saturday's 'smoko' was that which limited all speakers to not more than live minuter in which to propose and answer toasts. Link With Lidice A New Zealand challenge to the Nazis who razed the. village of Lidice, in Czechoslovakia, last, year is 1 reflected in a notable contribution to Auckland's share of the Third Liberty .Loan. Residents of. the small community of Puhoi, near Warftworth, some of whose ancestors came from Lidice, have subscribed £2156 10s. Pulioi was settled 80 years ago by pioneers from Bohemia. "Marvellous Soldiers" The pakeha soldiers back from the Middle East have warm praise for their Maori comrades. "They were marvellous soldiers," is the way one summed it up. The Maori casualties, had been heavy, but that was only to be expected in the lighting they had undertaken. The spirit of the wiiole battalion was epitomised in the late Lieutenant Ngarimu, V.C. This Evening's Intercessory Service Those who have followed the monthly Intercessory Services which have been held alternatively in the Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches are reminded that - this evening's gathering talk.es place in the Methodist Church at 7.15 p.m. Tliei service is only of half an hour's duration and combines the three churches named. Everybody is welcome, and a service of hymns and prayer is the common programme;. Flying Officer W. J. (Bill) Higgins From England comes a report from the New Zealand Services Club' anent Flying Officer W. J. Higgins of Whakatane, who w r as described as being on leave, in "rather he is a Canadian," runs the report, "for he was only in New Zealand two years before he joined up with the R.N.Z.A.F. He has just passed, out of hospital' lit again as a fighter pilot. He. crashed and was, frightfully burned about the face and body which meant a year in hospital under Dr. A. H. Mclndoe, the famous New Zealand plastic surgeon. Though he still bears evidence of his wounds the surgeon's skill has wrought wonders. Flying Officer Higgins says that all who pass under his treatment, speak with the greatest enthusiasm of Dr Mclndoe's care and skill." Many of his friends in Whakatane will be pleased to heai of Bill's recovery and will wish him welil in the future.