LOCAL CHRISTMAS LEAVE.
FOR THIRTY-THIRD EEINWDKOBMENT& Kxccpt for the guards, pickets, ■■ and police, (hero v will be no soldiers in Tronthani Camp until ' Boating Sight. It was intended that the 'senior draft, the Thirty-third, Reinforcements, should remain in camp and be given doily feme to visit Wellington. But it was decided on Friday to give these troops local leave from that night until next Wednesday night. A troop train, which left Treay tham at 6.50, took the men to Wellington. A large number of relatives of men of the Thirty-thirds are in Weflingto* just now, so that a very huge proportion of the troops, including those who wffl lie able to reach near towns in the North Island, will spend Christinas yriSh their people. For those who haw not this advantage, a dance is being given by the .Mayor and Mayoress and their «ominittee. Tho thirty-thirds are due-to rettna to camp by a train leaving Lauibton Station at 11.15 on Wednesday night.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1917, Page 4
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162LOCAL CHRISTMAS LEAVE. Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1917, Page 4
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