RETURNING TROOPS
TWO DRAFTS LEAVE UNITED KINGDOM. . Official advice has been received of the departure of two more from the United Kingdom with .\W Zealand hoops on board. ,The particulars are B5 under:— , ■Pakeha (Ketnrning Draft No. 251):Left United Kingdom April 12; 'due Wellington May 27. , Draft comprises 1373 troops. - Tofua ■ (Returning Draft. No. 251) :- Left United Kingdom April 18; due Wellington Chalmers June 2. Draft comprises troops, 5 civilians, ii women, and two children. This mates the number of New Zealand troops.at present afloat and.homeward bound-10,212. ■THE CORINTHIC'S DRAFT. By Telegraph- iPress Association. ■ '■■■•■■' Christchurch, April 23. Ihe transport Corinthic was berthed it Lyttelton early-this morning. The KHithern men left by a epecinl train, and the North-Island men left by the Monoiya» tp-night. . The men state that the licensing poll vote on the Corinthic gave ft very large majority for-continuance. , THE lONIC AT AUCKLAND, ' By Telegraph—Vvpss Assooiatlon. • ;; - Auckland,' April 23. , The transport lonic arrived to-night at' "9 'o'clock. She will be examined by the Health Officer in the morning,' a n<l will disembark about 9 o'olock. The southern men will leave by train in the evening: - .: . .' ' ; ' '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 5
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186RETURNING TROOPS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 5
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