THE SIXTH CONTINGENT.
The call for volunteers to form the Sixth Contingent for South Africa has met with a very hearty response in Auckland, and the fact of considerably over a hundred volunteering- in this district for active service at the front shows that all the hardships and discomforts of campaigning do* not disconrag'e our young'fellows from enlisting1. The point now arises as to the final port of embarkation of the contingent. It has been already urged in our colunins that Auck-
land should have the Honour of ■famvelling the Sixth Contingent. We arc informed to-day on the best at authority thai . the whole continent could be traced here am despatched from Auckland lust us well as at Wellington, In fad the wire could he done more satisfactorily here. The troops could be camped in Lne Domain and drilled there, even better than in Newtown Park in uclaa:; .<;,.. which is considered to be a very inferior training and compingf J««Everything necessary vj be <.io^, counoction with the cqulpplj^ J"s^; patching of the iurce uoul be ver ..-.11 carried out in Auckland. A ..i, .;in is made that The Mayor shorn;. kirindieations, supply tne larg^pr,to the hist contingent.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 310, 29 December 1900, Page 4
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