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-MEN EX MALTA AND MARAMA • - LANDED YESTERDAY ' The Wellington nion of tlio returning "■Drafts 206 and 208 disembarked yesterday morning'from the hospital ship Mn- ■ raraa and the transport Malta respective;.ijv ,; The Malta -had -on board 401 men ,of ' all,,ranks, returning chiolly from ■ Egypt. and Palestine. A largo number ■of-them were Mnin Body men. : The draft had had quito a long spell aboard (seven weeks' without landing anywhere), and the members of it were consequently very eager to get ashore. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) was aboard for about s four" liou'rs on Tuesday night, and in speaking >to si" Dominion representative yesterday, he said that he was particularly pleased to note how pationt the men were in spite of the delay in landing them. "Needless to say," continued His Worship, "they were- all very en- j thusiastio over the conclusion of the war. ] It was'very pleasing to see the unani- \ •mous desire that had possessed them to i get back to the country they loved so 'much." . ■'The Marama brought to Wellington about four.hundred men, or the balance ' left; of 557 men after the disembarkation at' Auckland.' "The Mayor said that ai .very, huge . number lwd been cot cases I •when the-vessel left England,, but, -a- | had'been before stated, a considerable'
number had so improved that by the time of their arrival hi New Zealand thev had ceased to be designated •as sucn. The men appeared to have had "a ■ particularly" good voyage; and tho great reception they had been given by the people at' Panama was another manifestation of' the cordial relations existing between the New Zealanders and the ■Americans. ; - Oh behalf of the Mayor and Mayoress's .committee, .Mr. Luke yesterday extended to' the men who were going south the nsnal hospitality by providing little comforts for them. THE MEN FROM THE BRIfON. ■ . By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, January 29. The troopship Briton has been released from quarantine. The Christchurch quota of men will arrive, here to-night, and the North Island nieii will leave by ferry steamer to-night,- and the West . Coast and southern drafts by train tomorrow morning. ,- Later. All the troops on the Briton were passed through inhalation chambers on the ship to-day, and afterwards the 220 Canterbury men were disembarked, and •reached Christchiirch about sight o'clock to-nig'it. The Otago draft renuiins on board all night. The ship wi 11 be berthed at 5.30 to-morrow morning.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 107, 30 January 1919, Page 6
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