ADVANCE PARTY
TROOPS FOR HOPU HOPU DEPART FROM HAMILTON The significance of the part which New Zealand is playing in We international struggle was brought home more forcibly to people in Hamilton to-day when an advance party of 70 officers, non-commissioned officers and men marched down Victoria Street headed by We Waikato Regimental and Hamilton Municipal Band, to entrain for Hopu Hopu. The detachment paraded at the Drill Hall and later set off for the station. Pedestrians lined the main street as the men swung along, and there was a crowd at the Hamilton station to bid farewell. However, as the Hopu Hopu camp is within a comparatively short distance of Hamilton the occasion was not nearly as solemn as those frequently witnessed 20 years ago when men set off for Trentham.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 8
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132ADVANCE PARTY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 8
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