TAHUNA CAMP
ADDRESS BY MINISTER FOR DEFENCE. MESSAGES FROM LORDS ROBERTS AND KITCHENER. (IT mEORAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Thia Day. The Hou. James Allen, Minifiter for Defence, inspected the troops at j Tahuna Park this morning. In the course of his address he read the following messages: — "I congratulate New ! Zealand on the contingent about to sail, I and feel sure it will meet with a hearty welcome here, and that undoubted success will be theirs. lam proud to be •their Cokmel-in-Chief.— Roberts." j "I learn with much gratification that r A contingent from New Zealand ie about to embark. I can assure it a very -hearty welcome from all here.—Kitchener." In the course- of an interview, Mr. Allen, said the raising, organising, maintaining, and returning of the Expeditionary Force would be undertaken ?>y f the New Zealand Government. All the Home Government would have to do would be to provide rations in England. Steps were being taken for organising immediately reinforcements amounting to 20 per cent, of the Expeditionary Force. These men wonld assuredly go.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 12 September 1914, Page 8
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176TAHUNA CAMP Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 12 September 1914, Page 8
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