New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 17, 20 May 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

HELPING OUR WOUNDED. THE GOVERNOR'S "LITTLE BIT. ' Per Press Assootatkon. Auckland, .May 19. Speaking at a public meeting tonight, the Governor expressed extreme gratification at the manner in which the people of the Dominion had received his appeal for the equipment of a hospital ship. He felt at first that the people were already supporters of so many funds they might feel that their generosity was being too greatly taxed, but before the appeal had been published 24 hours he had received indications of support from all over the Dominion. He had already received a donation of £IOOO from the Union Steamship Company. He proposed to leave for Wellington at the earliest posible moment to devote his energies to the task of seeing that the Maheno, when she did depart, was one of the best equipped hospital ships ever despatched. "I have not been allowed to go on active service," added His Excellency, "but in this way 1 will be aide to do my little bit." (Applause). RESPONSE TO THE APPEAL. Duuedin, May 19. Messrs Speight and Co. have donated £SOO. v Wanganui, May 19. The St. John's Ambulance Association is organising a street collection, and the Rugby Union i s devoting the proceeds of the Taranaki-Wanganui match to the same purpose. Local medical men to-day subscribed £IOO. STRATFORD LENDS ITS AID. [ju Ihb Enrroß Stratpoho Pobt.l Sir,—The proposal of His Excellency, Lord Liverpool, that New Zealand should send a fully equipped hospital ship to be used for sick and wounded New Zealanders at the. front, is surely one that will meet with the approbation of all. Nothing we could do woidd be so much appreciated by our men in the fighting line, and no doubt the Imperial authorities will be grateful for such assistance. The essence of the proposal will be in the quick despatch of the. hospital ship, and an endeavour is being made to get her away in three weeks' time, so that those making donations will give twice who give quickly. The Stratford Patriotic Committee will be glad to receive subscriptions for the purpose, which may be sent to the secretary, Mr J. B. Richards, or handed to any member of the committee. Five donations of £5 have already been made, and I would ask you, Sir, to be good enough to acknowledge donations in your columns.—l am, etc., W. P. KIRK WOOD, Chairman Stratford Patriotic Committee. The following is the list:—Mrs A. Kirkwood £5, W. P. Kirkwood £5, T. H. Penn, £5, J. B. Richards £5, Stratford Evening Post £5, total £23. SHIP TO SAIL IN THREE WEEKS. The Hon. Dr. Collins, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, will go in charge of the hospital ship to the .Mediterranean, and it is probable that the medical staff for the ship and the hospitals to be established will include many of the best known surgeons in this country. Altogether. 100 nurses are to be sent, and 25 of them are to go by the Sydney boat this week. The rest will follow later. It is hoped, and, indeed, expected ,that the hospital ship will be fitted ready to sail in three weeks. ANTI-CERMAN ACTIONS. Auckland,'.lay 19. Those people who have as a result of happenings in the war developed n violent antipathy to all things German are appealed to by Police Superintendent Kiely to think before they strike. "All is not German that bears a German name," is the argument used by the superintendent, and he ■particularly refers to shop windows in j this respect. The name oil the window may be ! German, he points out. but the trouble is that when a person gets the anti-German fever so violently that he goes out and smashes with a stone or a stick a German name on a glass window he incidentally does very little damage to the German name, but very serious damage to the British glass window. The situation is that these plate glass windows are all insured, and the insurance companies are British, and they have to make good the damage done by the antiGennan hooligan. The insurance people have naturally applied to the |police department to mevent such less to them as would be caused by wanton window-breaking, and consequently the police are on the alert in Auckland to deal promptly with any such riotous behaviour :>s disgraced Wanganui. Mr Kiely 'alo points out that anv person found inciting an outbreak of riotous behaviour wiH be promptly apprehended.

N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE! DIED OF WOUNDS. Auckland Battalion. Sergeant T. M. Davis. DANGEROUSLY ILL. Private R. Munro. PROGRESSING FAVORADLY. Captain-Surgeon George Craig. WOUNDED. Bugler W. H. Allen. Private A. Bullock-Webseter. Private O. N. Carter. Private It. .1. Dalziel. Priate J. Flanagan. Bugler \V. D. Gibbon. Private .1. A. Graham. Private Jack Halley. Private J. R. Hewlett. Priate B. S. Lambert. Corporal O. Mead. Private 1). Morrison. Private E. R. Quinlan. Private R. W. Thorburn. Private Mark Webber. DIED OF WOUNDS. Private G. H. White. PROGRESSING FAVORABLY. Major C. B. Brereton. WOUNDED. Corporal R. T. Barlow. Sergeant Henry Beck. Private J. M. Bell. Private R. Benbow. Private .1. W. Bond. Private N. F. Burnett. PrivateW. Butters. Private A. C. Chapman. Private T. Edridge. Privatee G. A. Herbert. Bugler A. B. Hoy. Bugler S. P. Hudson. Private F. W. Isherwood". Private H. A. Johnstone. Private G. W. Kerridge. . Priate 51. McGillan. Private J. MePherson. Private P. L. Minola. Private W. B. Morrison. Private C. Musgrave. Lance-Corporal J. M. Mycroft. Private C. Parsons. Private John Power. Corporal H. Rind. Private 51. Roche. Private C. J. Shaw. Bugler C. F. Stone. Lnace-Corporal F. G. Turner. Private A. E. White. Private G. F. Yeoman. DANCEROUSLY ILL. Otago Battalion. Private W. A. J. Drake. WOUNDED. Private E. C. H. Jacob. Private A. 1) MacPherson. Private Thomas .Miller. • Private A. Shipman. Private J. W. Young. DIED OF WOUNDS. Wellintgon Battalion. Priate G. T. Cox. DANGEROUSLY ILL. Private R. J. Denny, t WOUNDED. Private E. W. Hine. Private J?'. O'Connor.