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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 299, 7 August 1917, Page 3

The boys of the 30th Reinforcements who are due home in Pukekohe on Friday next on their final leave will be farewelled at the Carnival Tea Rooms on Thursday, evening, August 16th, at 8 p.m The public are requested to attend the farewell.—(Advt.) A suggestion was made by Cr Henry at the Fianklin County Council's meeting last Thursday that many settlers in country districts requiring belter roads might be inclined to take up debentures where loan money could not bo easily obtained and the Chairman (Cr Flanagan) mentioned that one settler had intimated to him that ho would be prepared to take up £IOOO in debentures. Mrs A. F. Brown, of Pukekoho, has received official notification that her brother, Corporal Adam R. Madill, formerly reported missing is now reported to have been killed in action. Corporal Madill was a Presbyterian minister. Educated at Knox College, Dunedin, he was for a time in charge of the Hobsonville parish, and for a yoar prior to his i enlistment was in charge, of the Whakatane parish. lie was a single man, aged .'js, and was the youngest son of the lato Mr W. H. Madill, one of the pioneer settlers of Pukekoho. One of the brothers, Serjeant J. W. Madill. is now at the front. Another brother, Mr Robert Madill, is a well-known farmer at Hamilton, and a third brother is the Rev I). C. Madill, of Stratford.