THE BIG DRAFT
1,381 SOUTH ISLAND MEN ON MOOLTAN SUMMER WEATHER AND WARM WELCOME (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 21. The Mooltan was an impressive sight as she steamed up the calm stretch of Lyttelton Harbour early this morning carrying 1,381 South Island servicemen and women from the United Kingdom and the Middle East. The weather was almost the best that a summer day could offer, and was a foretaste of the warmly enthusiastic welcome that awaited the Christchurch men at the railway staton. Yesterday the Mooltan disembarked approximately two-thirds of her complement at Wellington, and to-day just on 1,100 Army personnel, 147 Air Force personnel from the United Kingdom and the Middle East, 11 naval personnel from the United Kingdom and Ceylon, and seven civilians. It was a happy, uneventful trip, and with the exception of a few airmen who complained that the living quarters were crowded, the troops were loud in their praises of all that had been done for them on board.
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Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 4
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163THE BIG DRAFT Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 4
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