New Zealand Contingent
CONGRATULATIONS FROM ROBERTS AND KITCHENER.
REINFORCEMENTS AMOUNTING 20 PER CENT. WANTED.
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Dunedin, September 12
The Hon. Mr 'Allen (Minister of Defence) inspected the *.- troops at Tahuna Park this morning. In the course of Ins address he read the following messages :
"I congratulate New Zealand on the Contingent ahout to Bail, and I 'feel sure they will meet a hearty welcome there, and that undoubted success will be theirs. I am proud that I am th#ir Colonel-in-Chief.—Roberts."
"I learn with much gratification that a Contingent from tfew Zealand is about to embark. I can assure it a very hearty welcome from all here. —Kitchener."
In the course of an interview, Mr Allen said that the raising, organising, maintaining, and returning of the expeditionary force would be undertaken by the New Zealand Ctovernment. All the Home Government would have to do would be to provide rations in England. Steps were being taken for organising immediately reinforcements amounting to J) per cent, of the expeditionary force, and these men would assuredly go.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 12 September 1914, Page 5
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