A member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, writing to his father in Port Chalmers, says that he wishes emphatically to contradict a statement that is being published in the Dominion —that Neiv Zealand soldiers go into the firing line for a few days, then retire to rest billets, and from there go to England. “We have been for over three months,” continued the writer, “ within reserve billets, and the front line, and I have about as much chance of getting Home to see my jvife and son as I have of getting to New; Zealand. From where I am now writing is the first rest we have had since we came to France. We have been here for a fortnight, and we will be back in the front
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 264, 24 October 1916, Page 2
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