A BAD BUNGLE.
SHABBY TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE TROOPERS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. New Plymouth, last night. On Saturday night the Taranaki portion of the Ninth Contingent, with the Hawera men, who had come up by the train, paraded in the Drill Hall, at eleven o’clock. Twenty-nine men answered to the call. The men were briefly addressed by Lieut.-Colonel Ellis and the Mayor, and then marched to the station, headed by the Garrison Band, who played the troopers off as the train moved away. On arrival at tho breakwater there was no sign of the Hineraoa, by which the men were to bo taken on to Onehunga. A dreary wait followed in the drizzling rain, and at two a.m., as there was still no sign of the steamer, tho men were provided with temporary quarters in railway carriages and the wharf shed, by the kindness of Captain Hood, the harbormaster. This morning the men marched into town, and they are now waiting, like Micawber, for something to turn up. Captain Taunton and other local officers are in the meantime attending to the wants of the men, but the whole matter seerps the result of bungling somewhere that is regrettable. So far as is known here at present the men will remain till to-morrow.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 336, 10 February 1902, Page 2
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213A BAD BUNGLE. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 336, 10 February 1902, Page 2
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