RETURNING SOLDIERS.
DIVISION'S DEMOBILISATION. By Telegraph..—Pi-eat Association. Wellington, Feb. 4. The Minister for Defence has received advice by cable that owing to the order in which fit men for repatriation were returned from France, it has been impossible to arrange that the first draft coming by the Hororata should be all for one port or even one Island. In future drafts will be all for one Island, or possibly all for one port. The same telegram states that the Division is still at Cologne, but only 12,000 strong, and that 1000 men per week are being transported to the United Kingdom for demobilisation. There seems to be some doubt as to how the draft of New Zealanders whMh were brought from Egypt to, Australia in the Vestor will come over to New Zealand. The present arrangement is that the men, ISO of all ranks, will come on by the Mamari. but there is a chance that this ship will have to go to Sydney to discharge cargo, and then to Newcastle to bunker. If so this plan will probably be abandoned. In meantime the draft is in camp.—Press Aasn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1919, Page 2
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