PAPAKURA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 141, 4 February 1916, Page 3

PAPAKURA.

The following extract of a' letter received by a resident of Papakura from Trooper Walter H. Shove makes interesting reading to Papa kura residents :—" Tooting Hospital, November 6th, 1915: I saw Sergt -Kearnev before he died. He was as game as they make them. He recognised me. lam more than interested in Sergt. Dug. Wilson, and I pray that he lives. He is a real white man. He looked after Bobby Munro all the time, and Bobby's death had a great effect on him. As for Bobby he died like a Briton, and played his pait; and Jam pleased to say he did not suffer. I saw Johnny Paton, too, and had a fine yarn"with him and his lieutenant just after Bobby wos killed. I heard from Mrs Warmer that Harry had left the Band and was a trooper now. He has recovered from his wound and expects to be sent to Salonika next. I suppose Pll be sent there too, but it won't be before Christmas, and then I sincerely hope it is a bit better than Gallipoli. I am now satisfied that we in New Zealand have every reason to take off our hats to Tommy Atkins and to love the Mother Country." Trooper Shove then goes on to give details of the life of convalescent New Z?alanders. At the time of writing Trooper Shove was an inmate of the Tooting Hospital, London, having been wounded.