ODDMENTS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 March 1916, Page 2

ODDMENTS

I w There are, it is' said, no fewer than 300 curates in the motor transport. Whiie digging trenches at the north end of the sands at Cuiicrcoats, Aorthhumiberland, two privates ot tlie West .Hiding Regiment came upon a soam of coal. Women have commenced work as kujip-lighters at Chester. They are 'oeing employed by the corporation. Hull has decided to reduce the speed of iis tramears by about haJif during the dark hours of the morning and evening, in order to minimise the rcso* of street accidents.

A Royal iiugineer officer, wJiose liie ivas saved at the front by Sapper John -Matthews, of bheeraees (.ivent), has given his rescuer a- oheque tor £100 as a wedding present. ■It is announced from Canada mac Major Hamilton Cfault, ol I'miceta xatncia's Own Kegiment of Canahas come into a tortune 01 i-2ti0,000 by the death of his lather. Jj