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FOUR SOLDIERS BACK SECOND ECHELON MEN SURPRISE FOR PEOPLE (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday Four New Zealand soldiers, all Aucklanders, who went overseas with the Second Echelon have arrived at Wellington. They were taken ill aboard the troopships and landed at Capetown for hospital treatment. They remained there for four w r eeks 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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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 4
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