Far East Evacuees Leaving City Today

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 277, 23 November 1945, Page 6

Far East Evacuees Leaving City Today

Ten further members of the original party of 39 former internees and prisoners of war from the Far East leave Palmerston North at 7.35 a.m. today by a special hospital train on their way to embark on the hospital ship Maunganui, in the first stage of their journey to England. Eight will then remain at the hospital. The hospital train will run from Auckland, picking up patients en route, and after their embarkation at Wellington the Maunganui is to sail tomorrow for Lyttelton, where personnel in the South Island will be taken on board. The hospital ship is to sail by way of Australia.

Walking cases will be taken from the hospital by the Red Cross transport section to the Palmerston North railway station, and cot cases will be transported by hospital ambulances.

The need of suitcases for those who are leaving tomorrow has been met through the appeal made recently by the president of the Palmerston North Red Cross Society (Mr. J. K. Paton), and numbers of other items required by those in the party have been provided by the Red Cross. A close association has grown up between members of this organisation and the patients, and the latter have also made many other friends in the city.

Army personnel included in those leaving today are: L/Sergt. H. Austin, Gnr. S. H. Jess, Gnr. R. Jordan, Pte. J. Wright, Sergt. P. Ivoopmans and Sergt. J. J. Cumminga. Civilian personnel are: Messrs W. J. Fulker, S. E. Green, I. S. Hardoon and E. Davidson. Mr. Davidson will be accompanied by Mrs. Davidson, who originally went to Sydney and who came to Palmerston North at a later date to join her husband. Those remaining at the hospital will be Mr. L. H. de Cosier, L/Cpl. W. Ingham, Pte. H. A. Frost, Dvr. R. Guymer, Sergt. D. Christie, Mr. A. E. Haynes, Mr. R. E. Holden and Gnr. W. A. Morrison.

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