LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1919, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The l’aeroa passed Farewell Spit bound for Greymouth at 5 a.m. The Railway Department notify a special passenger train will leave Hokitika for Greymouth on. Friday morning next at 9.20. o’clock for Caledonian sports at Greymouth. Private - word received to-day conveyed news of the death of Miss Jessie Virtue second . youngest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs D. W. Virtue, formerly of Hokitika, which took place on Saturday at Wellington, after a long illness. An important public meeting of the heads of local societies and bodies is called for to-morrow evening at 7 o’clock sharp to arrange for a monster gymkhana on the racecourse when the trotter Cathedral Chimes will give an exhibition of trotting. Under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment Act of last session, an amendment has been made to the

principal act, whereby all discharged members of an Expeditionary Force who, having been classed absolutely as medically fit for service beyond the seas, have served as members of that Force in a camp of military training in New Zealand have through no fault of their own been discharged from that Force, may now participate in the benefits of the repatriation scheme. Hon Guthrie in explaining the clause to the House, said: “Some men who entered camp medically fit, had through no fault of their own, to be discharged from the Expeditionary Force as the result of sickness or accident. Had they not met with disability they would have gone to the front, and this clause was to make provision for such men, some of whom were very seriously disabled.” This information was mentioned by Mr Seddon in several of his political addresses lately, but the provision is not generally known yet, and is now published for wider information.