COMING HOME
BRITON DUE TO-DAY. The steamer Briton, with returning draft No. 2GB, is expected to reash Wellington at 8 a,m., tcKlay, and if a clean ship will berth at Glasgow Wharf at i p.m. Two gangways have been arranged for by Captain Pnctor, Chief Embarkation Officer, Auckland. district men leaving the ship by the forward gangway and Wellington district and South Island men by the gangway aft. Rail and ferry arrangements for the despatch of the men to their homes are, provisionally, as follow:—
Details for beyond Marton to Auckland (including Rotorua and Thames) will leave Thorndon Station by special train at 4.20 p.m. Refreshments will 1)8 provided at the Returned Soldiers' Club for these men.
Details for stations between Wellington, Palmerston North, Wangamii, and New Plymouth will leave Thorndon Station by special train at 4.40 p.m. Men of this draft for between Wanganui and New Plymouth will detrain, at Wanganui (where they will be billeted overnight), continuing their journey by train leaving Wanganui at 7.35 a.m. to-morrow-. Men for Palmerston North, Napier, and Gisborne (who leave by tho 4.40 ' p.m. special train from Thorndon) will. bo detrained at Palmerston North, and' billeted the night there, leaving by train from there at 2 p.m. to-morrow.
Men from Lambton to Woodville, vi: Wairarapa,, leave by the 8 a.m. trail from Lambton to-morrow, and 'will b bi'.leted at the Bristol Hotel, Cub, Street, Wellington, over-night. The Nelson, North of Westport, Pic ton, and Blenheim men will leave _by the Mapourika at 2 p.iu. to-day if tho transport arrives in. time to connect with the steamer, and failing connection, the Nelson and north of Westland men will depart by tlie Ivaitoa to-day at 5 p.m., and the Picton and Blenheini men by the Mapourika at noon on Friday. During their stay here (if the .occasion, arises throusli failure to connect with the Mapourika to-day), tlie Picton and Blenheini draft lyill billet at the Bristol Hotel till departure. The Southern men leave by the Lyttelton ferry 6teamer at 7.45 this evening. i '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 255, 23 July 1919, Page 6
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339COMING HOME Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 255, 23 July 1919, Page 6
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