SOLDIERS ON LEAVE AND FOR CAMP
The platform of the Invercargill railway station was busy yesterday at 1 p.m. There were people to welcome home soldiers returning for leave and people to see soldiers off to camp. The two sections seemed about equally divided.
The soldiers returning on leave arrived by the express due from Dunedin ;jt 1.10 p.m. The train was 10 minutes late. The. Mayor, Mr A. Wachner, and Mr P. L. Hodge, chairman of the Metropolitan Patriotic Committee, were among those at the station to welcome the men. Mr Wachner spoke to and shook hands with a number of the men, but there was no official ceremony. However, this was scarcely necessary as the men received hearty welcomes from their relations and friends. They all looked fit and well. There was one soldier in the party who had been invalided home after service overseas. He was W. J. McIntosh, of Winton. The transport section of file Red Cross Society provided a car to drive him to his home.
A draft of men left by the 1.25 p.m. train for Dunedin. They were bound for northern camps. There was a large crowd of relations and friends to see them off.
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Southland Times, Issue 24826, 19 August 1942, Page 4
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202SOLDIERS ON LEAVE AND FOR CAMP Southland Times, Issue 24826, 19 August 1942, Page 4
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