MOTOR-BOAT PATROL
REPATRIATION BEING ARRANGED,
The Minister of Defence (Sir James Allen) stated yesterday that he had leceived a cablegram from the High Commissioner with reference to the repatriation of New Zealand members of tlie Motor-boat Patrol and _ other naval latin!;!;. The High Commissioner had been in communication with the Adinufttyo this point, and had been informed that the New Zealanders ,rould A e "JX for return to their own country as quickly as possible. Some of the Motor PaM men are at present on leave m awaiting transport to this covuitry. Demobilisation will date from the atrnval "lirafiSteof Defence has ) received from tho Higli Commissioner the repoit of a captain of one of th,e mother-ships in which New Zealand officers and men of the Motor-boat Patrol took their qualifv:n(T courses The captain has expressed {KSionof all the officers and ratings He stated that he could not Tecall a single case of anyone giving the slightest trouble or offence during his period of command. Officers ot the AdmTnltv with whom he had been m communication had remarked the Zealanders had always pro\ ed themselves keen and capable. This was thes »perience of all who came in contact witn tlta New Zealanders.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 129, 25 February 1919, Page 4
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201MOTOR-BOAT PATROL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 129, 25 February 1919, Page 4
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