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;V: ZEALANDIC'S;DBAFT LANDS. Shortly after 9 .o'clock yesterday morning the Shaw-SavilHmer.Zealaudio berthed at the Glasgow--Wharf to land her complement of 'soldiers, comprising retained.. . draft No. 217. The perfect weather conditions" attracted'a;large muster of .the general, public,//.in /'addition to the next-of-kin who' assembled on' the •wharf,, arid, in answer to .the call of the ■Hon. 6. \V. Russell gave three rousing .cheers to the troops as the vessel drejv" alongside berth. - The Patriotic SoBlind (under Sergeant Jiipp) ren-' dered nuineious selections,'including the familiar'air of "Home, SWeet Home/' : DiMmbarkatiorf Was "rapidly carried out under the direction of "Captain G- Prictor. military, landing" officer. Altogether 1120' men disembarked; and the ship was clear toy' 11 o'clock; 1 ; A'large'number of' the men had artificial legs, in fact tlio'percentage of limbless eases'was. .the-largpst of any-returning 1 draft-fo date. -In the obinion' of 'the'- militar.v landing 'officer,' /the disembarkation was quite- tlje most' successful to' date. / ■ y. Dhere vvas a recpnl muster of motor'' cars 'of' the 'Voluntary Motor Corps, un- ' der Captain Px.voiv-and the-ietuined men' were speedily, dispatched to their homes'. The draft was' met Y.M;C.A. field secretary, who welcomed the men homo., Many availed themselves 'f the invita--tion-to the. lunch provided for them at jtbe Y.M.C.A. Soldiers' Host,*!. in Boul.cott Street, and. also at the Y.M.C.A., in iWOlis Street- •' , ■ '0 ; ~ ; The: Auckland,- Manawatu; and rapa men left for their homes, by special trains yesterday- afternoon, and' -the southern men went south by the 'Maori last night. The men for Taranaki and ■Hawke s-Bay will : leaye for, their destinations to-day.. . •-'«
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 7
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259HOME FROM, THE FRONT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 7
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