THE MAHENO’S RETURN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 58, 6 November 1915, Page 7

THE MAHENO’S RETURN.

DUE ON DECEMBER 20. I'Ell PIIESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, November 0. A cablegram received by the Governor states that the hospital ship Alaheno left Southampton on October 130, eu route for the Dominion. The vessel will call at Malta and Dgypt, and information regarding the patients on board will bo forwarded Horn the latter place. The Maheuo is due in Wellington on December 20. Hon. Jas. Allen stated to-night that the Maheuo is bringing a number of wounded New Zealanders who require better attention than they could be given on an ordinary transport. Some of the patients had been taken from English hospitals, and if there was room to spare other cases would be brought from Malta and Egypt. The men on board the Maheuo would be cot eases of the more serious kiud. The Minister mentioned that it had been arranged that some of the sick and wounded New Zealanders now in England should return to the Dominion on board ordinary direct steamers. A few men had returned via Australia, but that arrangement had proved unsatisfactory. Direct steam- . ©rs provided a convenient, moans j of getting convalescent men hack to j tli© Dominion in small groups. I