SOUTH AFRICAN VETERANS.
RBU'NIOX AT WELLINGTON". (Bj Telegraph.—Press Association.) AVELLIXGTOJf, Tuesday. The New Zealand Mounted Rifle*' Association's First South African ' Concelebrated Us 25t!h anniversary, to-tday. It was -formed on , the -troopship Orient, 1901, vn tilie voyage front South Africa. It went out 212 strong and had no. reinforcements. There are 160 survivors to-day, in all parts of the world. The loving cup used on reunion occasions is {in enamel billy with three silver hands bearing the dates of tlie reunions. The billy was used by the jucn. on tfte troopship. "Orient, which was the first transport to enter New Zealand ■watere. General Sjr ;presi4ed at the reunion. Caiblegrapie and letters of greeting iwere received from England.' Malta, the Transvaal, Scotland anil Australia.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 251, 22 October 1924, Page 7
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