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N.Z.E.F. Draft From Pacific
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND May 16. A draft of officers and other ranks from the third division, 2nd N.Z.E.F., in the pacific was given a Government reception today at Papakura Camp. , The majority of the draft will be available for disposal to essential industry at the end of their privilege leave'of 28 days. Not all these soldiers have been in action. As one of them said,.“Some .of us have spent about two years waiting to meet the Japanese and we have not seen one yet.” However, whether they were in action or engaged in equally essential duty elsewhere, all members of the party, like those other drafts which have preceded them, have endured the peculiar hardships of active service in the .South Pacific, the greatest among them probably being the monotony, boredom, filth rind heat of the tropics. Wherever they have been in the various islands on which the third division has fought in action or served as defence troops, the men have seen enough, as they all most fervently declare, of the so-called glaiporous islands of the Pacific.
The Minister of Rehabilitation, Major Skinner, represented the Government at the welcome.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 196, 17 May 1944, Page 6
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197WELCOMED BACK Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 196, 17 May 1944, Page 6
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