TROOPS DUE TO-MORROW.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 69, 21 March 1919, Page 6

TROOPS DUE TO-MORROW.

the athenic's contingent. reception; arrangements. citizens asked to help. Thp transport Athenlc will arrive at Auckland to-morrow mornin_ with the t northern portion of her contingent of re!turned soldiers. Details of the reception, which will be carried out on the 'same lines as that accorded to the men who arrived by the Hororat.i, were _ivcn : in yesterday's "Star." | A ferry boat, carrying next-or-kin. ;wiIJ jro out to meet the transport in the channel, leaving one hour before the jship is expected in the harbour. The ferry steamer .-ill return in time to land [the next-of-kin to take part in the wel;rome on the Queen's wharf. | Citizens generally are asked to cooperate in making the reception a fitting one. A salute of six guns is to he tired :from the forts at Devonport as the transport comes into the harbour. Mrs. J. H. Gunson, pre--ideiit of the Auckland Women's Patriotic League, states •that the arrangpments made for th,- reception of the soldiers depend to a -real extent on the co-operation of thp general public, uho arc asked to "ather a* point- of vantage along the waterfro'li t.) .dicer the men. !t i, hoped that ~- many dags as possible will he. in evidence.

"THER DRAFTS COMING. A.r.vNA Dr.: Monday The transport Ajann. with draft No. --4 of returning soldiers, ■■omprwir.***' 7-I.S o all rank.-. i. due at Auckland on Monday. The vessel will ha-.,- to und -r go the usual ;„i-:„d of ii. hours in iiuuantmc before the troops are landed.