DUTCH MOTOR LINER

Grey River Argus, 11 February 1941, Page 5

DUTCH MOTOR LINER

AS DOMINION HOSPITAL SHIP (Received February 10, 10.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 10. Mr T. Elink Schuurman, ConsulGeneral in Australia for the Netherlands Government, has announced that a new twenty thousand-ton motorship, the Orange, of the Royal Dutch Mail Line, has been handed over to the British Government, for use as a hospital ship to convey New Zealand and Australian troops (Received February 11, 12.40 a.m.J BATAVIA, February 11. The Dutch East Indies Government has offered to equip and staff the crack ( liner “Oranje,” as a hospital ship for the evacuation of the Australian wounded and sick The Offer Accepted WELLINGTON, February 10. Regarding the cable re. the Nether, lands vessel being used as a hospital ship, when the message was referred to Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, to-night, he said that the New Zealand Government had accepted the offer with gratitude. The Commonwealth Government had also accepted it. FURTHER N.Z. CASUALTIES. WELLINGTON, February 1.0. The following further casualties to the N.Z. E.F., Middle East, are reported:— Temporary Sergeant Alfred Bert Robinson, killed in action. Wife, Mrs N. J. Robinson, Dunedin. Sapper Richard Francis Dorset, killed in action. Mother, Mrs Agnes Dorset, Masterton. Sapper John Edmund O’Connell, killed in action. Mother, Mrs Rose ( O’Connell, Timaru. Sapper John Naylor Sharpe, killed in action. Friend, Mr A. D. Sinclair, Drill Hall, Auckland.