LAST DRAFT LEAVES JAPAN
(Otlicial Xew Zealand Correspondent with J Force. i KURK. August 24. The seeond returning draft — the last 190(1 of Xew Zealand 's 1. '16, 000 active. service troops to return lioine — left ,lap'in early tliis niorniiig 011 hoard the Chitral whieh is expected to arrive in Wellington about September 9. Tfie tr&ops Jeft the' tliree nftiin4 Xfcw Zealtind eentres tn special t.roop t rains. and after travelliiig niost of the niglit arrived at Ixure early yesterday liiorning. The embarkatiort was carried out smootiily, and before nooii all the otlicers and 111011 and hospital patients aud nursing sisters and V.A.D. 's were settled in their quarters. There was general sat isl'action with the arconiinodatiou whieh was far from overcrow ded. The Jirst day "s nieals were first elass. As the troops lined the rails for their last sight of Japan they looked even more cheerful than their replacements had been wheu they arrived last weelc. The returning draft is made up oi' men who left Xew Zealand with the 1 4th and 15th Reinforcements, and cuine from Italv to Japan in February.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 August 1946, Page 5
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