NEW ZEALAND DIVISION.
FIT AND UP TO STRENGTH.
[by telegraph.— association.]
WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The, Minister for Defence has received a letter from Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Godley, dated August 9. LieutenantGeneral Godley states:—"The New Zealand Division has had practically no fighting at all einco Passchendaele last October, and therefore is one of the divisions strongest and fittest in every way. ' Now the tide has turned," he. proceeds, "I hope for the opportunity of using the New Zealandera in pursuit of the Boche, 1 am . sorry the division was not with me down in the Champagne. The only New Zealand representatives ' there ' were a squadron of Otago Mounted Rifles a Cyclist. Battalion, and the New Zealand members of my staff. Fighting recently became open warfare. One thing you may be sure, that, broadly, speaking, everything connected with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces has gone extremely well, and we are quite satisfied with, alj that has been done for us,' ! ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16971, 3 October 1918, Page 4
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