ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1918, Page 3

ELTHAM.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Elthain, JJec 21. Amongst a list of promotions granted to officers in the Expeditionary Forces 1 am pleased to notice that .Major W. I. Xarbey has been gazetted to tlio rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, vice LieutenantColonel Holderness, to date from August 20, ISIB. This intimation will be received with great pleasure by his many friends here. When war broke out Lieutenant JCarbey was amongst the first to enlist, and his soldierly qualities quickly gained him a captaincy. Further promotion Was not long in coming, and now he ranks as a Lieutenant-Colonel, liver a enthusiast, be was sergeant in the old Eltham Riflo Volunteers, and then continued with the Territorials, being elected a lieutenant. He is a fine shot with the rifle, and, when football was played, was a member of the local senior team His brother Tom has been back .from the front some time, having been invalided

home through wounds sustained at Gall) poll At the recent Borough Council meeting the Mayor, in the course of a few remarks, replying to Cr. Taylors congratulations on having come through a strenuous year, touched on the epidemic disturbance, and stating that (H) patients had been treated at the temporary hospitals, but, unfortunately, 14 deaths had occurred. This was not the> complete list, as 6even others had died in private" institutions and homes.

Regarding the voluntary assistancerendered during the epidemic, Cr. Bridger favored the3e workers being named, but this was believed to be something in the nature of an impossibility, and the counoil, rather than run the risk of missing a worker, wisely refrained from individualising, and carried a general resolution thanking all concerned. An ex-business man, J. Arthur, is in town looking up all friends. He was 8 Second Division man called up by ballot and passed into camp. To get there ho disposed of his business, and is ndw übdecided what his future will be. Mr. TV. D. Ross, secretary of the Overseas Club, informs me that the display of photographa of British and Continental war vitwj has been abandoned. The rooms w**s taken over-by the Information in connection with the influenza. Since the war the Overseas Club h*s brightened many a trench with parcels of cigarettes, tobacco, etc.. whilst our Jack Tars were not forgottten. Concerts, ets.. organised by the dub were generally ji featnre with this class of entertainment in Eltham, whilst the membership was steadily growing each year, a tribute to Mr. Ros3' enthusiasm-