HEAYY TRANSPORT WORK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 63, 7 December 1917, Page 5

HEAYY TRANSPORT WORK

_ » j SOLDIERS GOING ON LEAVE. j Arrangoments for the transport of j the thousands of soldiers who are pro- , coeding from the training camps on ; final leave at Christmas are well in hand. The exodus will begin on Do- - s dber 18, and will <=°™ i tho two succeeding days, l'rom botli ! camps special trains Witt run to carry , troops bound north and south but tim , nearest tnak in transport will bo conrated with Featherston. Camp, as ; there will be more men ra that tamp than at Trentham, while the tomtaka Hill will add to the work. On Decem- ■ be" 18, 19. »»«1 20 tliree trau ! s ?, *Z ' will leave the camp for Auckland , done, and there wiU be ethers bound for Wellington, Hawkos Bay, and ; Tirauaki. Between Wellington pnd , J, telto it is estimated that abou 20CO soldiers will travel, and speo.nl troopships are to be provided to take then . Numbers will also proced to , Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast. All told, nearly 9000 so d.ers w.ll b> N ; mried to and from their homes on , leave, the return to camp : heing made on January 7. During the j Slays a number of officera and sev- , , eral hundreds of men for guards and ; fire pickets will remain in the camps. ;