AN INTERESTING JUBILEE
BRITISH TROOPS DEPART FROM NEW ZEALAND. ■ Fifty years .ago yesterday the first •of the British regular troops left New Zealand for England. For many years the colony had been garrisoned with Imperial troops, but following the adoption of "a self-reliant policy" by the New Zealand Government, the regiments were to be gradually withdrawn, leaving the colonial troops to handle any Maon trouble that may occur. The 65t.1i Regiment, known as the "Royal Tigers" (after whom the Royal Tiger Hotel in Taranaki Street is named) were the first to take their departure. On. October 7 the left wing of that regiment, commanded by Captain Bnlkley, with eleven officers and 200 rank and file, embarked ou the ship Rob Roy (823 tons), and sailed from Auckland oil the following day. The second detachment, including the Headquarters Staff, under Colonel Wyatt, with twelve officers, 22 non-com-missioned officers, and 100 men, sailed from Auckland on October 26 of the same year, in. tho.ship John Temperley, This regiment had then been stationed in New Zealand for eighteen years. The last of the Imperial troops to leave New Zealand took their departure on February 24, 1870.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2588, 9 October 1915, Page 11
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193AN INTERESTING JUBILEE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2588, 9 October 1915, Page 11
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