DRURY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 89, 29 September 1915, Page 1

DRURY.

WAISTCOAT FUND. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BATCHELORS. The Ladies' Reel Cross Guild, in answer to a request from the Mayoress of Auckland for 50 waistcoats, deputed Misses Barnes and McFheison to make a canvaßS of Drury, Runciman and Karaka, and with the help of Miss Ena Flanagan, who drove them round, tney exceeded the expectations of the most saoguine cf their well-wishers Only batchelors were asked to subscribe.

The total collected was a sum of £26 13a, which will allow of the purchase of 76 waistcoats at 7s each. ihe dono.s were as follows: Archie Batty, Urqubart Bros, £1 2s 6d; A. Uirdwood, £1 2s; James Fitzgerald, J. Flanagan, Tnos. D. Swann, 16s each; J.F., R. Dykes, 10s each; Maxwell 8s; J. Quino, B. Peoples, W. J. Hamilton, B. Hamilton, C. Sutherland, A. Sutherland, A. Fielding, W. Sutton, G. McDowell, J. Appleby, Jack Appleby, W. McKay, A. Bath, F. B. French, Bert Flanagan, J. Mcßean, J. Rugg, J. Tooman, W. loomarv C. Sexton. W. Bremner, Alex Bremner, B. Warner, W. G. Bill, F. Caddigan, Joe Taylor, B. Parnell, A. S. Carpenter, J. Muir, A. S. Keid, R. Dawson, J. Keir, Harold Glasson, W. J. Morton, J. W. Dixon, W. CodliD, Chas. Clarke, U. Bartley, Wm. Ritchie, K. Johnßton, J. Kettle, Mansill and Rochester, 7b 6d each; H. Walker, 7s; J. McDonough, W. Wallace, H. Glasson, R. Mitchell, J. Chitty, W. A. CoBUr, G. G. Bigwood, Langford, 5s each; W. Wood, 4s; S. Hoastead, 3s Cd; H. Scott, W. Bycroff, O. R. Bycroft, T. Cumminp, A. Short, 2s 6d each; J. F. Hawkins, E. Hill, T. Wall, E. J. Turriogton, C. Henniog, 2s each; A Boy, Ib.

Ihe ladies are still busy knitting and providing comforts for our woundid soldiers. Several large parcels of knitted goods bave been forwarded to Auckland. The ladies are very reticent aa to the amou t of woik they are doing, and evidently their motto is work, tot talk.

The Rev. Perry gave an interesting lantern lecture in the Drury Presbyterian Church on Friday night. There was a full house and the lecture was instructive, lucid and to the point, and the pictures were without exception first-class. A gloom has been cast over the district by the tragedy at Rama Rama, as the deceased was well known in Drury, and spent the evening prior to his death at the Presbyterian lecture. The Game Farm is now a going concern, and will soon be one of tbe show places for visitors from cities and towns.

The local creamery is going at tdp. The milk supply is mounting up by leaps and bounds The cattle on the surrounding farms are knee deep in lucious grass such being a vast contrast to what it was last year at this time. Some time ago it was unofficially announced that Lieutenant D. Eric Bremner bad died of wounds. It nas since been ascertained tbat be had recovered from his wounds in the hospital at Malta, and was going back to Gailipoli Peninsuia. Two of our ''boys", Mr D. Bremner and Mr Jas. Flanagan, are now in training at Trentham, and we look forward to giving them an enthusiastic God Speed before they leave our shores to go overseas.