SEND-OFF PREPARATIONS.
By Telegraph—-Press Association. Auckland, last night. The Ninth Contingent Send-off Committeo has made final arrangements for the Auckland farewell. The troopers are to be entertained at a luncheon, and march to the steamer, An aquatic display similar to that at the farewell of the Eighth Contingent will be made. The funds collected for the send-off amount to over £3OO. If a surplus remains after meeting expenses, it will be used to form the nucleus of a fund for tho purpose of a memorial to colonials who have fallen in South Africa.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 362, 12 March 1902, Page 3
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