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Levin Daily Chronicle, 23 May 1918, Page 1

Mr George H. Thompson, a Taumarunui tradesman and a member of the Taumarunui Borough Council, has been nustpd from his seat -on tW-riminr jl as the result of the reserved decision given by Mr Rawson, S.M, Mr Thompson was summoned at the instance of two councillors for having participated in a sewerage contract in contravention of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908. Defendant was formerly in partnership with a brother. After a dissolution of partnership he advised his brother to tender for a contract, and afterwards supplied his brother with goods valued at £2 lis 9d, used in connection with the contract. The Magistrate held that thc fact that the amount was small was immaterial, and ordered the seat to be vacatcd. "Some of the worst land in Hawke's Bay" was the remark of a returned soldier at Wednesday night's meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association, referring to an estate on which discharged soldiers had been settled. He said that the conditions, which suited the sellers but not the settlors, made life a hard struggle for the men. "They are only hanging on till some other silly comes along," he added. "I am sorry for swearing," he apologised, "but I feel sorry for the men who arc losing their savings— and some cf them have girls waiting.' How a hospital sliip raced a cablegram across the world was related at a meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Association. A soldier who returned from the front on Thursday sent a cablegram from Brockenhurst on A.piil Gth last to his relatives in Wellington, announcing that he "was well and coming home." He had arrived in Wellington about two hours yesterday and was at home when a ring was heard at the door. The soldier answered it and received the very cablegram that he had sent about six weeks before. "That's nothing," remarked another returned soldier quietly. "I seivt a cable home 12 months ago and it has not rcached there yet!" ' In a speech at Liverpool, Admiral Lord Jollicoe said:—"l look upon the late Lieut.-Commanded W. E. Sanders, V.C., as one of the great heroes of the war from the naval point of view. He came to me after he had earned his V.C., and I had the pleasure of shaking hands with him. Thc story of .his deed has yet to be written, but thc man who realised what his deed was was his opponent, and I am not giving ivway any secrets when I say his opponent was a German. (Applause). It was witH the greatest possible grief that I heard later of Licut.-Commander Sanders having been killed in thc exercisc of his duty. He was a New Zealand officer and I have had painted certain incidents of his exploit which I propose to send to New Zealand after the war, as a tribute to a very heroic deed." (Applause).