NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.
DEFENCE MINISTER'S EXPLANATION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Discussing the Dominion's casualty list, which a Press Association message stated yesterday totalled 57,929 in killed and wounded on March 31, the Minister of Defence said this morning that the published list was misleading. There had been this number of casualties, it was true, but many of them recovered and had been discharged, though, on the other, hand, a certain percentage of wounded would be permanently disabled.
Altogether, 1440 officers had been gazetted out of service, while 31,986 noncommissioned officers and men had been discharged from the niaiii Expeditionary Force, in addition to which 1357 officers and men had been gazetted out and discharged from the Samoa force of occupation, making a total of 34,792 officers and men, a large proportion of whom had returned to New Zealand as casualties. At the present time, added the Minister, there were in the Dominion 61 fl hospital in-patients, 617 in the convalescet homes, 2704 out-patients, ana 240 on sick leave, making a further 3977 men. Sir James added that he hoped the last of our sick and wounded soldiers would leave England this month.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1919, Page 5
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194NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1919, Page 5
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