SOLDIERS KITS

Evening Star, Issue 17080, 26 June 1919, Page 4

SOLDIERS KITS

ARRANGEMENTS FOR DELIVERY. The complaints recently mad'? by the I Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association re- | garding the baggage of soldiers coming off i transports do nob seem to bo justified. j Tha soldier on a transport has the opportunity of cheeking his kit through to the 'nearest railway station to hu destination, j or of having it delivered at his home if I ho resides at the poi*t of disembarkation, j with tlio alternative of taking it ashore ' himself. The majority of tho men. eviI'dently are in favor of adopting the latter I course, as is shown by what happened on | the Maungamni the other day. There wero 11,160 lots of ba«-rrage on this vessel, and of this number 9SI wcro taken a.shoro by j the men themselves, while only 157 were i chicked through by rail I A copy of 'Baggage Instructions,' as | by tho lucai Defence Department, [ •eras seen by all the men prior to disernjbarkation. 'These instructions stated: | " There arc five methods of dealing with a ! soldier's baa-gage—via., check through by ;rail, deliver through New Zealand Ex- ■ pi ess Company, deliver bv A-S.C. service, taken ashore by the soldier himself, sent to Defence Stores to be raited for. Baggage will bo checked to tba_ nearest static a to tho soldier's destination. _ Soldiers ptocecding to tho following stations will have their kits delivered by the New Zealand Express Company:—Whangarei, D.'irgaviile, Gisborae, Picton Nelson, and : West Coast A separate cheek will be given for each package. Baggage must, !bo stacked on deck aft in separata lote | for the following districts :Dunedin City; : south of Dunedin ; stations between Dun- | edin and Oamavu ; .stations between OaniI aru and Chrtetchurch ; for Christehuroh ; | for North Island ; and New Zealand Ex.j press Company, Nelson, etc."