INVALIDS RETURNING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 64, 15 March 1916, Page 2

INVALIDS RETURNING.

U'HIKTSr-FOTJK ON FRIDAY. EIGHTEEN OTHERS BY S.S. ARAWA. .Thirty-four Auckland . soldiers, wbo teaehed Dunedin yesterday by a transport front IZgyjst, will arrive by the early ;Main Trunk express on Friday. Eighteen others, including Major F. A. iWood, N.Z.aC.. (Auckland Mounted Rifles), and Major W. C. Sinel (Auckland Infantry), are due at Wellington to-morrow from England by the steamer Arawa. Hie vessel, .which: has 128 invalided soldiers ""aboard, will put' off passengers and mails at Wellington, lea,ving for Auckland almost Auckland -soldiers- will' remain on board, and shoud arrive fieTe'] on Saturday- or Sunday.' Owing to the ■uncertainly as to the time of the ve*3'el's arrival, no formal welcome has been arranged, btrfc.probably a combined welcome will be iteld for'both contingents, perhaps in,one of the sheds on the Queen's wharf. Of-the-men.arriving on Friday,.2s are described as hospital cases, five 'being for the Haimltbn Hospital,, ah'di' ohel 'each for WhangareLand. DaigayflleLi Purteen require treatment as out-patients at the Auckland Hospital, leaving fh*e' -as inpatients. There are no cot cases. A private telegram states that Gunner 3. H. Jones, of Auckland, invalided'witli j aeuritis; i* on hoard the troopship .ivlrich - irrived in Dunedin. yesterday. "' .'.. ]