NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 8 September 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

FOR CONVALESCENT SOLDIERS. v ANOTHER GIFT OF £SOO, MONEY GOING TO POUfl^N. ! „ WELLINGTON, Sept 7. Another gift of £SOO has been accepted by the Hen. G. W. Russet for the provision of a camp for convalescent soldi'er s at Rotorua. The money was offered by Commissioner Hodder, on bdhalf of the Salvation Aknriy. Similar generosity is being witnessed in th,e South Island for the establishment of ji camp at Hanmer. It i s expected that the profits of a patriotic trotting mecitng promoted by the Canterbury Owners and BVeedelrs’ Association will amount to £SOO for that purpose. Mr Russell says he fully anticipates that the whole of thehioney ah* : material needed to set up’tfhese canfps will com® from the •voluntary contributions of organisations and' individuals:

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

PALMERSTON N.„ Sept 7. A fatal railwajy accident occurred here to-day. a railway employee Waiter Gallichan, met his death by bemg run over by some railway trucks. No on e witnessed the accident and ti is impossible to obtain I particulars how the same occurred 7 Three trucks passed over the man* practically severing the right arm and leg and crushing the instep of the left foot. The man was immediately re-. moved to the hospital, whclre lie expired at 6.45 p.m. The deceased was of middle age, and leaves a wife and two young children. He was prominent in Druid circles.

NEW ZEALAND COMMANDER.

AT EGYPTIAN BASE,

DIVES INTERESTING INFORMATION.

WEj.EtNGTON, This Day. In a l&tter to the Defence Minister ; Colonel Charter',, Commanding at theZealand base'in Egypt.says; Neither post office nor casualty office is in his control, but under different officers. Casualties aro supplied to Charters by the Records Office, and lises cabled are only one s that are official and'reliable. With regard to Major Stuckey and Lt. Baddeley, wjho were wounded on the Ist August, and reported missing, no further infc/rmation can be obtained. No one has seen them since, and Colonel Charters thinks there can be no doubt they are dead. He believes a Court of Enquiry is to be held to determine their cases.

Colonel Charters says they a're short of sorters for post office work, and that two trained, men should he sent with each reinforcement. Since April 17th mails hav e gone forward with (regularity, but for about a month, owing to the men being in transports and the difficulty of landing malts on a shell swept beach, they could not he regularly distributed. Colonel Charters gives details of the system of looking after the wounded, and that he has three motor orderlies doing nothing but going round attending to the wants of patients. Bach man receives a present of a razor, miriror, toothbrush, stationery, tobacco, and other articles as he arrives from th e front, paid for out of Government funds and money supplied by units. There is l no New- Zealand base hospital, Lady Godley’s* Convalescent Hom e being the only place that takes New Zealanders exclusively.

Dealing with the difficulty of obtain ing information about the wounded,ho says there is no direct service to Gaba Tepe, and one maiy have to wait months for a reply to enquiries. It is no ferry trip owing to the presence of submarines-.

Colonel Cfharter s concludes by* saying that the gratitude of the wounded men is ’wonderful, and nurses, speak in the highest terms' of tlieih; patients.

A HDNTSHVH.I.S ACCIDENT.

COMFENfrATIOhr SITED' ’ FOE. WANGANUI, This Day. The Supremo Court is engaged today in hearing a claim by Mrs. A. Meehan for £I,OOO damages for alleged negligence, from Dick and Flyger, builders and contractors. The claim arose over a fatal accident which happened to plaintiff's husband, Henry Meehan, on May 25th, at Otairi, Huntervitfe, who, while engaged in raising a house for the defendants, a brick fell on his head, killing him.