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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 5

Two men of the New Zealand forces on Gallipoli in 1915 met for the first time since the Great War in Hamilton the other day. They were Captain J. Toon, who served in the Ist Canterbury Regiment, and Sergeant G. Grant, formerly of the same unit, and now a member of the National Reserve in camp at Hopuhopu. The men last saw each other when they were on patrol duty at the evacuation of Gallipoli on December 19. 1915, when they were two of the last three to leave the peninsula. Until this week neither was aware of the other's whereabouts, or even that he had survived the Great War.

An example which many a younger man would find hard to emulate was set by a 71-year-old resident of Beachhaven. who on his birthday, September 12 (says the “New Zealand Herald”), commenced a fortnight’s cycle tour of North Auckland. Carrying a rucksack on the handlebars of his bicycle, he travelled to Dargaville by way of Maungaturoto, reaching Hokianga Harbour on the sixth day. The return trip was made through Whangaroa and Russell, a deviation being made to the Whangarei Heads. No ill-effects followed the journey, and since his return be has been working in his garden and regularly walking the five miles from Beachhaven to Birkenhead.