LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 94, 21 August 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hawera Hospital Hoard on Thursday passed a resolution conveying the heartfelt sympathy of the board with the chairman on the loss of his eldest son (Lieutenant Taylor).' while lighting for his King and country.

Mr Hugh McLeod has been elected unopposed a member of the Whangaraoimijm County Council in place of Mr K. H. Koherton, who leaves with the <Sth Reinforcements on Monday next.

Saltholm Island, on which the British submarine ELI struck is in the { Sound, the Channel separating Sweden from the island Zealand, Denmark. Copenhagen is only some seven miles away from the island. In its narrowest part the Sound,is only four miles wide, j CAw || AAI ajor Denton tells : Australian in a trench. When a Turkish bomb was thrown the Australian instantly throw a sandbag over it and sat on it. The bomb exploded and the soldier was.ihlowp a feiv'jfeet into*the' air and came down, unhurt. An officer indignantly rebuked the soldier, who/replied, “I didn’t want to see all you poor blighters killed.”