RETURNING DRAFT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 18, 23 January 1919, Page 4

RETURNING DRAFT.

SEVEN HUNDRED' MEN REACH #| AUCKLAND. £ ,<■■■■■ » Zr (United Vjw* Awodrtlqn.' AUCKLAND, Jan. 20. % The transport jßuahin© amyed early £ this afternoon, wrth a draft Oliver 1m officers, nurses, - aid - men, The vessel berthed about 3 j-m., when r the wpj* ?Jy of medically boarding her complement wae immediately proceeded with. ■£.: . The Southern njen were dealt with first in order to despatch them for their J|2 homes by special train. v . troops aboard the ’Ruahine were ||| in charge of W. H. Cunningham, D.S.Q., and lieutenant- •?., Colonel H. T..D. Ackland, C-MjG., M was principal' medical officer. "he *S Ruahine was the fiipt vessel with oyer- m seas troops returning, Fome to negotiate the Channel since m Jhe -« armistice, and* the and the alder- :p| men of Tilbury marked the hy giving the tiwps 4 k©arly fjWffW* "S Over 800 British troops; assembled at J1 docks, and massed bands played as the ship steamed off.- Np leave.was granted <p| at Colon, but' at Balboa the American - ||j Red Cross. >eent quantities hi fijuit 1 andtweets .aboard--'Educational were '*j held throughout the. trip. * J j . On© mim, Private diedl during the voyage, and w4p buried - ; ,»3 at sea. ■ ;• . 1 I \ On wefe dplyTaxioot j casesy a reduction of ten on tha number alwiard in EingJanjl. ~ V /