New Zealand
IMMIGRANTS FROM HOME. MEN OF MILITARY ACE ARRIVE. ~rg Auckland, December 0. i There was some excitement at the waterfront at nine o’clock this morning when a mini her of wounded men hack from Gallipoli assembled to express disapproval of-men'who might ' he eligible for military service in Eng- ! land immigrating to New Zealand. The steamer Uonmera berthed an hour earlier than they had expected, and by the time the demonstrators had gathered in any force, the hulk of the passengers had gone ashore. While the shore people and the passengers were intermingled. l some immigrants were subjected to uncomplimentary remarks. Among the first-class passengers, it was assorted that twenty to thirty-live men were of military ago. and none of these were assisted immigrants. . All the men- spoken to by pressmen denied having left England for other reasons than the econo-’ mic conditions prevailing there.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 2, 6 December 1915, Page 6
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146New Zealand Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 2, 6 December 1915, Page 6
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