DISEMBARKATION PLAN

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 9

DISEMBARKATION PLAN

TRANSPORT FROM SHIP'S SIDE

A total of 2355 long-service personnel of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. from Middle East will arrive in Wellington tomorrow morning aboard the Strathaird, and all will leave for their homes during the day. All the men concerned are North Islanders, those for the South Island having been disembarked at Lyttelton today. Wellington men will be the only ones to pass through the next-of-kin shed at the wharf, all • others being placed on some form of transport on the wharf and setting out for home as soon as they are landed.' Following is the order of disembarkation, numbers in each draft being 1 given in parentheses: — 1. Gisborne-Hawke's Bay (319), disembark between 8.30 and 9.15 a.m. to a train on the wharf which will leave as soon as the men are aboard. 2. Manawatu-Taranaki 4375), of! between 9.15 and 10 o'clock to train on wharf, 3. Wairarapa (87), off between 10 o'clock and 10.15 to buses on wharf for their homes. 4. Wellington (456), between 10.15 and 11.10, through next-of-kin sheds where namos will be called over a public address system; motor transport and Red Cross cars to their homes. Lunch will be served on board for men not already disembarked between 11 o'clock and noon. 5. North Auckland and Auckland (564), between 12.15 and 1.30,-to train on wharf. 6. Auckland province, Bay of Plenty. King Country (554), between 1.30 and 2.50 to train on wharf.