ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1916, Page 3

ELTHAM.

PATRIOTIC COXCERX, ' (By Our Travelling Reporter.)' The Eltham (Patriotic Committee am holding a contort on Friday evening, in aid of the British Red Cross funds. ""The best local talent will take part, and a programme equal to any given here will be'submitted to an audience that should fill the Town Hull. Details of Hie entertainment will be found in our amusement columns on page 1, MOTOR ACCIDENT?. On Stuulay, whilst preparing to take his mother' (Mrs. C. .1. Belcher) to church, Ray Belcher met with a bad accident. He was starting the motorcar when the machine back-fired, breaking his arm in three places just above the wrist. The aceident was all the more unfortunate as the sufferer was the "help'' on the farm, two of his brothers ,being. at the front. A VALUABLE SHIPMENT?,'; The Eltham Dairy Factory will be interested in the next . voyage of the steamers lonic and Somerset. The former will convey "£IO,OOO worth of the company's cheese and £2OOO worth of butter to London, whilst the Somerset will include in her cargo £3OOO of cheese for Liverpool. THE WAX. \

Private O. V. Allen, who has now been invaljded home for some months, was able to move round in the sunshine for a few hours on, Tuesday. He has dispensed with crutches, and a stout stick takes the weight off the shattered knee. He had hopes that when he left the New Plymouth hospital eight months ago it was a permanent removal, but lie "fell to pieces" at liotonu and was glad to get back to New 'Plymouth. Tie pays a high tribute to the New Plymouth doctors and nurses, and as he has been under similar hands in Egypt, Malta, and England, his testimony to the efficiency ami attention at New Plymouth speaks well for the institution. Private "Rob" Barr, of Eltham, has been placed on the wounded list. In times of peace "Bob" was a Draw hiclan' huldic, good at the fling and with the bagpipe.?. His numerous friends hope that he vvill soon be able to get going again. ""Harry Faull, of Kaponga, who has •'gone under" to a German bullet, was well known in these parts. He was a prominent hockey and Association footballer. 'Only t few days previously his parents hacMßfieen, notified that his brother Will had been wounded,

GENERAL. "Unslriess may be quiet generally, but last month was a pretty {rood one for me," remarked an Elthamilfc to the writer. The same remark also fell from the lips of a Waitara. man, so pcrhap3 things are improving. "Can you milk a cow?" was the question put to the writer. Under certain circumstances perhaps I could, but just now the inclination for the life of a farmer does not appeal to me. ''Well, here it is," continued the farmer "I've been battling along for many years, and now when I want a spell the farm is short-handed, ind I have to get into it harder than ever. Guess the vows are calling. Good-bye," and the farmer moved oft".

The Church of England Men's Society had a "big meeting on Monday evening, Rev. G. W. 'Dent" presiding. "A Night with Dickens" was the subject and the papers and speeches introduced made the evening pass very pleasantly The Presbyterian Young Ladies' Sewing Guild are busy with their needles sewing lor soldiers. They have accomplished useful work, and their labors are well appreciated, judging from the letters received. One writer stated that he was weary of the Egyptian desert and appreciated a touch of ;lcar old New Zealand, and wished to lie home again, but he adds: "Should I die here, I shall be a better man than if 1 stayed at home."