Moving pictures brought happiness to the heart of one mother in Auckland last week, The good lady's only toy went away from New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force. Letters were frequently received up till the time when the New Zealanders went to Gallipoli. Then weary weeks and montlis passed, with never a word from the soldier son. The mother could get no news of him through official channels, and she has for some time been in a state of despair. Then, this week a friend approached her with the joyful intelligence that her son figured amongst groups of wounded men whose pictures were being shown at a Queen street continuous picture theatre. For three days the mother has spent long hours in the theatre, waiting for the film to come round again, in order that she might feast her eyes on the sight of the missing boy. He has evidently been badly battered, for when the picture was taken he was still swathed in bandages -—but he was there, and alive, and that to the mother is precious news indeed. The picture finished on Saturday, but 'lhe manager (Mr. J. F. MaeMahon) kindly cut the film, taking out that portion which conveys the picture so dear to the mother's heart, and this has been ore-
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1915, Page 8
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