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RETURN FROM CAPE TOWN. MEMBERS OF SECOND ECHELON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Four New Zealand soldiers, all Aucklanders, who went overseas with the Second Echelon, have arrived in Wellington. They were taken ill aboard troopships and landed at. Cape Town for hospital treatment and remained there for four weeks before taking passage to New Zealand. “We don't know what's going to happen at the moment, but we expect to go overseas later on," said one. "Oh boy, what a surprise is in store for our people in Auckland! They have no idea we are back.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 6
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99INVALID SOLDIERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 6
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