ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1918, Page 3

ELTHAM.

(From Our Own" Correspondent.) Eltham, Sept. 12. I very much regret to have to record the death (killed in action) «f LanceCorporal Jack Barr. Last week the writer of these lines received a short letter from Sergeant Jack Andrews, also <tn Elthamite, in which he says that ''one of-the best boys in our company is young Jack Earr, who is a leviathan, having filled out considerably since comjng to the front"; and now, having heard that he was a promising soldier, one regrets exceedingly to have to write 'Finis" to his earthly career. Another brother, Sergeant R. Q. Barr, left with an earlier contingent, and was wounded, but U now in good health, as far as "Your Own" can gather. To his parents and relatives, let me add, my sympathies to those of others in the loss they have sustained in the death of voting Jack, who was an expert electrician, and a fairly skilled Highland dancer. The Eltham Canty Council meets on Saturday. The wtit weather recently prevailing must have caused the Eltham Riding members some anxiety, as the papa cliffs in jjhe Mangamingi Ridge have been a source of trouble through slipping during the winter.