NEW ZEALAND TROOPS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND TROOPS

REPATRIATION ARRANGEMENTS

LONDON HEADQUARTERS TO CLOSE NEXT MONTH

8y TelegraDh—Press, Assocjation-ConyrlEM (Rec. August 3, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 31. The majority of the remaining New Zealanders and many 'raves and families will embark during tho next two months. The Corinthic will soil on August 9 with SOO,. including Generals Melville and Young; Iho Adolf Woevmaii ou August I) with COO, the Tnitiiii on .August II) with ilO, tho Aian'a on August It with MO, and the lonic with 800, and the'Willochra with GOO will sail later. Torquay and Sling ,will be the only remaining New Zealand depots. Walton Hospital is 'being closed. London headquarters will close in September. A small staff will remain until December. Three hundred absentees are scattered throughout the Kingdom, and a good proportion has responded to a warning that thev must report to ensure rcpatritu lion.—A-us.-N.Si. Cable Assn.

OFFICERS' CLUB BEING CLOSED. London, July H). The New Zealand and Australian Officers' Olub, in Granville Place, is being closed. Goneral G. N. Johnston, in command of tho New Zealanders in England, presiding at an officers' dinner, presented tho founder and hostess, Miss Close, with, a diamond wristlet watch as n mark of appreciation from thousand:; of Australian and New Zealand officer*. Miss Close will shortly visit Australasia. A branch' of tho New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association has been formed in London.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.