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INVALIDED HOME
Four New Zealand soldiers, all Aucklanders, who went overseas with the Second Echelon of the Expeditionary Force, have returned to the Dominion. They have been invalided home from Cape Town. All four were taken ill during the voyage and were landed at Cape Town for hospital treatment. They remained there four weeks before taking passage to New Zealand.
"We don't know what's going to happen to us at the moment, but we expect to go overseas again later on," said one of the men, when interviewed at Wellington today. "Oh boy, what a surprise is in store for our people in Auckland," he added. "They have no idea that we are back."
None of the four men had much to say about the journey from New Zealand to Africa; they were in hospital most of the time. They said they enjoyed the time they had in Cape Town after their discharge from hospital, and that the British residents there treated them very well.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 9
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