DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1916, Page 5

DOMINION'S PART.

OFF TO THE FRONT.

MORE iMEN FAREWELLED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A parade to-day through the streets of the Fourth Battalion of the Rifle Bri'grade, the third Maori Contingent, and two sections of No. 2 Rifle Brigade Ambulance created great enthusiasm, thousands lining the route of march. The soldiers were addressed on the wharf by the Governor, the Premier, and Hons. Allen. Pomare and Myers. ' The Governor said that the men had a great name to uphold, and lie knew they would uphold it. The 'l'reinier said the fact that tens of thousands of soldiers had already gone to the front, and the fact that thousands more wore' willing to follow, .showed, the determination of the Dominion to assist the Empire.

CASUALTIES TO DAT!:. Wellington, Last Nigh't. An official return gives the following totals up to, and including, .January 3l' ; Officers. Rank. Killed 09 1132 Died- of wounds 24 535 Died of disease 9 278 Died, cause unknown 6 34§ Drowned 10 23 Missing 14 252 — y; 23 Wounded H .. 217 ' 5245 Tat'ilS, \..... 349 7838 This makes the aggregate casualties 3183, various deductions from items in previous libts having l>eeu Iliads a* a result of a count inquiry clearing up the late of men reported missing in earlier dispatches. "