THE MAHENO.
DDE ON DECEMBER 20. MANY PATIENTS ON BOARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Lust Night. A cablegram received by the Governor states that the hospital ship Maheno left Southampton on October 30, en route for the Dominion. Hie vessel will call at Malta and Egypt, and information regarding the patients on board will be forwarded from the latter place. The Maheno is due in Wellington on December 20.
Hon. Jas. Allen stated to-night that the Maheno 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 Maheno would be cot eases of the more serious kind. The Minister mentioned that it had been arranged (hat Pome 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 tliat arrangement had proved unsatisfactory. Direct steamers provided a convenient means of getting convalescent men back to the Dominion in small groups. •
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1915, Page 4
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