PRISONERS IN FAR EAST
MAUNGANUI TO BRING THEM HOME. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 22. The Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) announced to-night that the Government had arranged for the hospital ship Maunganui, which has been attached to the British Pacific Fleet, to be used as soon as circumstances permit to evacuate New Zealand and Australian prisoners of war and interned civilians from the Far East to their home countries. A contact team comprising an officer and two warrant officers is also being sent to South-east Asia Command Headquarters to join the recovered Allied prisoners of war and internees control staff set up by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten’s headquarters. The duties of this team will be to proceed into recovered territory to assist in the documentation of recovered New Zealanders, reporting their recovery and physical condition to isew Zealand, and making the necessary arrangements for their repatriation with the least possible delay.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 268, 23 August 1945, Page 8
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