DISAPPOINTED SOLDIERS
NO BERTHS ON STEAMERS.
Soldiers from the training camps on Christmas leave have been disappointed in many cases owing to their inability to secure berths 011 tho steamers that would have taken them towards their homes. Yesterday tho Monowai left for Lyttelton with a full complement of passengers, and there were soldiers among those who, having failed to book berths well in advance, could not get aboard.
The blame for tho failure of some of the_ soldiers seems to rest less with the shipping people than with the military authorities. Tho shipping companies, which had very heavy uivi'ian bookings, foresaw the trouble, tnd could nave made adequate arrangements for the soldiers if the Defence Department had co-operated by sending the first batches of men out of the camps on December 17 instead of December 19. But when a suggestion to this effect was made the Department refused to accept it. Special bookings have been made for tho soldiers on some steamers, and several special steamers have been iuii for their benefit. But the arrangements, as was the case last year, have proved inadequate, and soldiers have had to waste a part of their leave waiting about Wellington for a. chance to get south.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 77, 24 December 1917, Page 4
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205DISAPPOINTED SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 77, 24 December 1917, Page 4
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