THE THIRD ECHELON
HAWKE’S BAY AREA OVER 100 MEN SHORT (Per Unitfj) Press Association* MASTEETON. Mar. 23. The Hawke’s Bay-East Coast-Waira-rapa area is reported to be over 100 men short of the complement for <he third echelon. The area quota, including additional men for the Maori Battalion, is 814, and the number at present available is 700. THE FIRST CASUALTY SOLDIER INJURED ON TROOPSHIP (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY. Mar. 23. The first Anzac casualty of the war is Private H. R. Howe, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who injured his spine on a troopship and who is being invalided home to Rotorua. He has reached Sydney to await a ship to New Zealand. Private Howe was in the repatriation ward of a Perth hospital for several weeks, and is at present at the Graythwaite Convalescent Hospital in North Sydney.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24255, 25 March 1940, Page 8
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