AUCKLAND SPECIAL

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 346, 21 February 1902, Page 2

AUCKLAND SPECIAL

(Special to Times.;

Auckland, last night. Fifty five horses arrived to day from Gisborne for the Ninth Contingent, and were taken out to Te Papapa camp by a detachment of men specially told off for the work.

The Observer to-day says that one of the smartest officers in the camp of the Ninth is Lieut. Bees, of Gisborne, a son of that most redoubtable of all our political fighters, Mr W. L. Bees. As a contingenter anxious to get to the front he is one of the most persistent. Apropos of this it is related that having made deter, mined efforts to get into former contingents, and having been refused on account of weakness of eyes, he eventually engaged I himself in the humble capacity of groom and went out as an attendant upon the horses. After his return he made another endeavor to get a place as trooper in the I Eighth, his eyesight again standing in the I way, He once more took a situation as groom, and in this capacity he had actuilly set out on the Burrey, but- while the ‘roopship was steaming down the harbor Mr Seddon aware of the circumstances of Mr Bees' case, rewarded bis patriotic persistency by sending him ashore with a promise of a commission in the Ninth. Needless to say that promise j was kept, and Lieut. Ted Bees will go uiii in charge of men instead of horses.