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Guardsmen leave Bearskins, pipes, and New Zealand souvenirs were among the cargo in a Royal Air Force Hercules which ' left Whenuapai yesterday with the final detachment of Irish Guardsmen on board. The 30 guardsmen, the last of the 117-man unit which came here six weeks ago to take part in the Auckland Festival’s military tattoo at Western Springs and Army exercises at Waiouru, were returning for duty in Hong Kong. Most will go straight back to patrolling the border between Communist China and the Britishheld territory at Hong Kong. —(P.A.) Well met Mr R. Malcolm, aged 79, and Mr R. A. Macintosh, met for the first time for 70 years —in the orthopaedic ward of the Christchurch Hospital. “Reg Macintosh was at the other end of the ward, but his bed was moved next to mine,” said Mr Malcolm yesterday. “He heard a nurse mention my name, and asked me if I knew Central Otago. I said I did and he asked me if I was Ralph Malcolm —we had been at the Naseby School when I was aged nine and he was ten. My father, J. P. Malcolm was headmaster. Reg had been in Sydney for 40 years. Then he said he had recently moved to Kainga—this is not half a mile away from where I live.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32566, 27 March 1971, Page 18
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