Late Private W, Walton

Levin Daily Chronicle, 21 December 1918, Page 2

Late Private W, Walton

t "YOtJ .MAY CHKRTiSH HIS MEMOEY WITH 11UDE." .Mrs Walton. of Tcvin. J las received soino gi'eatly-appreeiatcd letters of sympathy from the officer and comrades of lier late son. Private W. Walton, who was killed in Franco. They all testify to the late Private "Walton's fine qualities ns a man and a soldier and in that respect help to assuage the grief at his lamented death. Lieut P. A. McDowell states that Pte. Walton was one of a working party which, was digging a trench to connect two shell-holes—an urgent work and being under fire the whole time. About 1 a.m. a bullet struct him in the breast and uenetrated. the heart, killing him instantaneously. "Your son was a good and keen soldier; he was a bomber and one, of my best men. I did, as my w;h'ole company did, miss him greatly. But our loss is not nearly as great aR yoims." Chaplain Grigg writes: Wprds are unavailing in the presence of sorrow like youiv and of what we are up against here. But I want to tell yon that we think much of the diear ones of our fal- ! len comrades as we lav them low. May I God's great and wonderful consolation be yours. Your son died bravely and in the uttermost devotion to duty for God, empire and home. You may cherish him memory with pride and gratitude. Our commanding officer wishes me to express to you his appreciation of your son's work, courageous and selfsacrificing devotion to duty and his sincere sympathy wifh you and your family in your great loss and sorrow." Capt. A. P. Speedy also writes a sympathetic letter in \vhich Jf>© describes the cross Pte. Wa^oij!sisAnrades were ejecting to mark hv»:&rftve and sayn he .tyas oive of the best -soldiers in the Oom■pany.'likGd and respected by. all who ; camo in contactjjuatfe him. .-.Jk s* '• "*■

Mr Hone McMillan, of Koputaroa t has been elected to the responsible position of trustee of the Poiiiun College Trust Board, which holds its property under the General Synod of tfeeOhiirch of England. The late Mr P. Ta.pua, of Otaki, was tho previous trustee. A steady riss in tho circulation of tiie "C hronicle" during the past few | months in the best indication that it is I appreciated by an ever-growing circle : of readers. Advertisers will bo interested to know that to-day's issu.: consists of a thousand copies. j The State policy in regard to Educe.- *; , ! tion differs very little in the courso cl' u; i years. It is still, necessary to agitato f ' long and strenuously for oven the uio>t ' pressing additions to school buildings. . It was so in the "good old days," but the Mayor of Shannon, in conversation • with a "Chronicle'' representative, recalled a method ot moving tho "powers that be" that proved very effective in former years. With tho advent of the flax industry, tho school building at Shannon was found to be much too small. A building wholly unsuitable, about a quarter of « milo away, was rented by the Board to contain the overplus. For two years deputations and agitation went on for enlargement. 'Hie Board put on the Go- . verument and the Government on the Board. It was clear under the" Act that the Board was entitled to a special grant for this sclicol. MroMurdoch waited on the l'rimc Minister (the lit. Hon. R,. J. Seddon), put tho matter clearly, demanded a 'Tos" or "No" ranswer, but could get neither. He then '& called a public meeting to pass a reso- i lution -asking the Victoria Memorial L Statue Committee in London to refund H £500 of the grant of £20,000 given by the New Zealand Government as the Treasury had been depleted of funds to su,ch an extent that the Government was unable to build, schools. This advertisement appeared in ths "Chronicle" at tho time. The following three days the wires were extensively used by the Chairman cf the School Committee and tho Education Department, synd an architect arrived tlic same week and the matter ended there. £ - It's always difficult to select a suitable Christmas Gitt for a man—but not if you visit Clark's Mercery Store. *