HOSPITAL SHIP MARAMA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 24 October 1916, Page 5

HOSPITAL SHIP MARAMA

The hospital ship Marama, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Sunday afternoon, brought IG7 soldiers, 20 nurses and a matron. There were thirteen cot cases, mostly of wounds. About ten men have lost'a limb. The majority of the men on board were wounded in' France. The vessel left Southampton on August 31* t and landed about 400 men in Australia. F. Redpath, of the Wellington Infantry, died on the way out. Speaking at the reception His jfixeellency Lord Liverpool said that the Marama was next going to Bombay to pick up men from Mesopotamia. He had received letters from leading men in India expres-sing thanks for the use of the vessel. He had also received a letter from King ,Geer2;e expressing hearty appreciation of the Ist and 2nd battalions of the Rifle Brigade, which he inspected about ■six weeks ago. The Minister for Defence (the Hon. James Allen) said the Maheno and Marama had carried 33,800 wounded soldiers.