N.Z. WAR PRISONERS
ANOTHER 900 RETURN. P.A. WELLINGTON, July 19. About 900 New Zealand former prisoners of war arrived at Wellington to-day from the United Kingdom. They were welcomed in the harbour by an official party. Most of them had been released in the final stages of the conquest of Germany. Many had been confined in both Italian, and German prison camps as far back as 1940. The draft included 95 Wellington men, 17 from ’Wairarapa. 83 Taranaki, 37 Hawke’s Bay, 24 Gisborne, 325 Auckland Province and 305 South Islanders. The Auckland men are leaving by the three o’clock train and other North Islanders by road transport. South Islanders are travelling by the “Arahura” and the “Wahine" this
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Grey River Argus, 20 July 1945, Page 5
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118N.Z. WAR PRISONERS Grey River Argus, 20 July 1945, Page 5
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