MOTOR-BOAT PATROL.
GRADUAL DEMOBILISATION. RELEASE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. [by telegraph.— correspondent.] .WELLINGTON. Mon<W. In a statement regarding the demobilisation of the New Zealand motor-boat patrol, the Minister for Dofence, Sir James Allen, said to-day that he had cabled to the High Commisaioner 6tating that many inquiries had been received as to the probable date of demobilisation of members of this unit. The High Commissioner had communicated with the Admiralty on February 22, and had received a reply that the Lords Commissioners regretted that it was impossible to give a definite date for demobilisation. The men are not all being released at once but as their services can be 6pared. Some of the men for whom repatriation forme have been applied for are being collected in the depot, but it wis known that there were other New Zealanders serving from whom no repatriation applications had yet been received. The High Commissioner stated that he was advised that New Zealanders of all branches of» the naval service would be released as early as possible. A number of the motor-boat men were on leave awaiting transport to New Zealand. Demobilisation dated from the day of arrival in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17141, 22 April 1919, Page 4
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197MOTOR-BOAT PATROL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17141, 22 April 1919, Page 4
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