Northland Maori Btn. Officer Home Again
(Special) . AUCKLAND,' This Day. The work of New Zealanders at the prisoner-of-war reception, centre in England;,.is practically finished end they will probably be returning before long, said Captain I. G. Harris, former officer of the Maori' Battalion who wss among the. Northland personnel who arrived' this morning. , Captain Harris, who went overseas with the Second Echelon as a private, served in the Maori Battalion -in all the division’s major engagements and was wounded in Crete, in Uorth Africa and in Italy. After the German capitulation in Italy he was posted to a repatriation centre under the command of General Kippenberger. He believed the Gem oral would be returning to New Zea land next monthf . Before he left England, Captain Harris- saw the New Zealand Army Rugby team play' Swansea. Tile team played fine football and Was very popular with the crowd, he said.
Asked about conditions on the Mooltan, Captain Harris said there had been some complaints when they first went on board; but they were not- jbs- - The meals were as good as ahy he had ever had, and the men seemed to have been equaly well fed. It . had been a good trip add the weather had' been ideal till they reached Wellington, where they were nearly blown back into Cook Strait.
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Northern Advocate, 21 December 1945, Page 7
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