MOUTOA NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1405, 1 June 1915, Page 4

MOUTOA NOTES.

(Own Correspondent), The flax cutters of Whitaunui met on Thursday evening last to bid farwell to one ot their mates, Mr J. McCarthy, who has joined the reinforcements. After the toast of the “King, Army and Navy” had been honoured, Mr A. McLeod, who occupied the chair, presented Mr McCarthy with a wristlet watch. In the course of a few well-chosen remarks the chairman said if McCarthy behaved himself and fought as well as he worked bis mates at Whitau nui would have no need to be ashamed of him as a soldier. In responding, Mr McCarthy thanked them all for their good wishes and hoped that he and his brother soldiers would be a few of many who would make the Kaiser regret that he had ordered his German soldiers to walk over General French’s little army. Almost every man of the forty present said or did something towards the entertainment. After the toasts of the “Maori Contingent,” “The Veterans,” “The Ladies,” and “The Press,” had been honoured the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” brought a historical evening for Whitaunui to a close.

Several more employees from Whltaunui are also leaving next week for Tientham. Edie Firth, who has been several months in the Palmerston North hospital, has undergone three operations, the last of which necessiated the removal of all the bone of the left arm from the shoulder to the elbow. Edie owes his life to the skill and attention of Dr. Putnam and the hospital staff. A card party was held in the Moutoa School on Friday night in aid of the Belgium Relief Fund, also to receive the balance sheet of the Moutoa Carnival held recently. has already been forwarded to the Belgian Consul in Wellington, and after several small amounts yet to collect are In hand it will bring the total up to about ,£125. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Galland and Mr C. Morgan, chairman and treasurer respectively.