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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 480, 10 June 1919, Page 1 (Supplement)

An amusing incident occu ed shortly before the arrival of the north express conveying the soldiers of the Remuera's draft, at the Dunedin Railway Station The train w*s late, and a lar?« crowd wasontheplatformawaitinj> its arrival At a quarter to ten a train from Port Chalmers pulled up. The crowd, naturally mistaking it for the express, burst into a tempest of cheering, and an astonished private seldier, who was merely travelling from the port, and wa* standing upon the platform of the first carriage, was the recipient of an ovation before the mistake was realised