THE "HORORATA" DRAFT
A MIXED COMPANY. The Minister of Defence has received advice.by cable that owing to the order in which the fit men for repatriation were returned from France it has been impossible to arrange that the first draft coming by the Hororata should be all for one port, or even for one island. In future drafts will be all for one island or possibly all for one island. The same telegram states that the division is still at Cologne, but only 12,000 strong, and that 1000 men per week are being transported to the United King-, dom for demobilisation. ■ ' There' seems to be some doubt as to how. the draft of New Zealanders which were "brought from Egypt to Australia in the Nestor will come over to New Zealand. The present arrangement is ihat the men, 150 of all ranks, will come on by the Mamari, but there is a chance that this ship will have to go to Sydney to discharge cargo, and then to Newcastle to bunker. If so, this plan will probably be abandoned. In the meantime the draft is in camp.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 4
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187THE "HORORATA" DRAFT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 4
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