HOMEWARD BOUND.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 183, 4 August 1919, Page 5

HOMEWARD BOUND.

SAILING OF THE TROOPSHIPS. CLEARING THE CAMPS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) < LONDON, August 3. Four thousand New Zealanders re-, maining in England, many of whom ; have wives and families, will embark j for New Zealand during the next two t months. The Corinthic sails on August ; 9 with 800 soldiers, including General t Melville and General Young. The Adolf £ Woerman will also sail on August 0 c with COO; the Tainui will sail on t August 10 with 440; the Ajana on f August 14 with 940, and on the same _.• date the lonic will sail with 800 soldiers land their families. The Willoehra, with „ ! (iOO aboard, will sail at a later date. ( Torquay and Sling will be the only c remaining New Zealand depots. Walton t Hospital is shortly to close. The Lon- „ don headquarters of the N.Z.E.F. will ] close in September. A small staff will j remain until December. Three hundred n absent soldiers are scattered throughout J the United Kingdom. .- A good proportion have responded to a warning that t they must report to ensxire repatriation, i (A* and N.Z. Cable.) (