SOLDIERS' LEAVE
: .) Complaint is mado by soldiers at present in camp regarding the expense that is forced upon them when they return from leave in the South Island and reach Wellington on Sunday. There is no train to the camp on that day, and the men aro forced to find accommodation in the city at their own expense until Monday morning. Uien they must rise very early in order to catch the train that will take them to Trentham before their leave expires, This is a grievance with which the Defence Department is not oiucully concerned. The soldiers, like other people, are inconvenienced by the stoppage of Sunday trains. But tl;e Department, except on special occasions, does not undertake to provide transport for men on leave. If men liavo been directed to return to camp on Monday morning they are expected to make their arrangements accordingly Any alteration m the steamer time-tables or the train nirangeineius is outside the control ol the Delence Department.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 96, 16 January 1918, Page 6
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164SOLDIERS' LEAVE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 96, 16 January 1918, Page 6
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