CHRISTMAS LEAVE
TROOPS TRAVELLING HOMEWARD. The training camps at Featherston. and Trentham have teen practically denuded of troops during the pasli few days. A few drafts bound on leavo for outlying parts of the Dominion left camp on Wednesday, but yesterday was the day on which the heaviest work' was done on the railways in connection with the troops."' At Featherat.on. large numbers /were paraded shortly after daylight,' and train after train left the camp siding during tho dajThe same was the case at Trentham, the first • batch to leave being ready; for the six o'clock train from Upper Hutfc to Wellington. The southern men went south by special steamers. By Saturday the moving of over 10,000 men in khaki will have been completed, so that tho civilian traffic on Christmas Eve will not be hampered by troop trains. The return of the troops will begin on January 4. It is hoped that civilians will refrain, as far as possible, from travelling on that day and on January 5. Needless to say the man were in excellent spirits at prospect of spending Christmas at home'. '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2958, 22 December 1916, Page 6
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185CHRISTMAS LEAVE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2958, 22 December 1916, Page 6
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