THE SIXTH CONTINGENT.
THEY WANT TO COME HOME,
[ Special to Times. | Auckland, last night. I learn that some trouble appears to have arisen in South Africa in connection with the length of service of the Sixth Contingent, which loft New Zealand under Colonel Banks. The Sixth Contingent includes a number of Gisbomoites. They are asking to bo allowed to return at the expiration of six mouths from dato of arrival in South Africa, ana as they went away from hero last January that term has now expired. But the Imperial authorities decline to give them permission to return. Mr Seddon has been cabled to from South Africa by the Sixth, but he is afraid that no definite arrangement was made at tho time of their departure as to tho period for which they were to serve, as was done in the case of all the other contingents. Ho is now making inquiries into the matter. Mr Seddon seems to think that the request of tho Sixth is a reasonable one,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 186, 14 August 1901, Page 2
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