FEATHERSTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 7

FEATHERSTON

PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE COLLECTION OF WASTE METALS. ("Times-Age” Special.) A meeting of the Patriotic Committee was held in the Anzac Hall lasi night When Mr J. W. Card presided | over a good attendance. Miss Currie acted as secretary owing to the absence through illness of Mr N. C. C. Shepherd. It was decided to send money to the Masterton Patriotic Zone B to cover contributions for Christmas gifts for the fighting forces overseas, Featherston’s quota of parcels being 20. It was decided to place boxes at various places inviting contributions of Is towards gifts for the Christmas Gift Fund for fighting forces overseas. A letter was read from the Mayor of Wellington in regard to collecting waste materials such as copper, copper wire, brass, bronze, gunmetal, aluminium foil, lead, tubes and zinc. It was decided to establish a depot in a shed on the north side of the Town Hall, and people are invited to deposit waste material there. A motion of sympathy was passed to the relatives of Sergeant Browne, R.N.Z.A.F., who has been reported missing. Apologies for absence were received from Mesdames D. H. S. Riddiford, C. Pearce, D. C. Collins, I. Gordon, H. Bloxam, Lowell, J. Holland, Q. Donald, Saunders, Arch Clark, Tutbury, J. King, Messrs J. M. McKenzie and Arch Clark. Personal Items. Mrs Till has returned to Wellington after visiting her daughters at Featherston. Sergeant S. Batchelor, of the Special Railways Company, has arrived home, having been discharged as medically unfit. He left for service overseas in May and just recently received his stripes. Mr G. M. Browne has received cabled advice that his son, Sergeant T. Browne, R.N.Z.A.F., is reported missing. sergeant Browne, who is the son of Mr and Mrs G. M. Browne, is 19 years of age. He was educated at the Featherston primary school and the District High School.