Nearly 4000 Members Of Forces Home Again
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day Nearly 4000 New Zealand members of the forces returned to the Dominion by the Mooltan yesterday. The draft, consisting of Navy, Army and Air Force personnel, together with some representatives of the forces of .other countries—(including the Free French—and some wives and fiancees of New Zealand servicemen—totalled 3846, of which number 2423 had North Island destinations. The official party, which welcomed the draft, included the acting-Prime Minister (Hon. W. Nash), the Minister for Defence (Hon. F. Jones), the Minister for Rehabilitation (Hon. C. F. Skinner), and Lieutenant-Colonel J. Ferris, who addressed the Maori members in their own language. The sum of £B6, representing charity money raised by the men during the voyage to New Zealand, was handed to the Returned Sexwices’ Association representative. Mr. W. E. Leadley, for the benefit of the Blind Servicemen’s Institute.
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Northern Advocate, 21 December 1945, Page 6
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