TASMAN RETURNS
REPATRIATION OF EVACUEES FINAL DRAFT FOR INDIES (PA.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 8. Making her last visit to New Zealand as an evacuation vessel, the hospital ship Tasman arrived at Auckland to-night from Brisbane with 134 passengers- The ship, which will embark 150 Dutch evacuees from Camp Oranje on Saturday, is expected to sail the same day. The ship is under the command of •Captain W. Eleveid, and the voyage, which was concluded to-night, was the first occasion on which she had carried civilian passengers since February, 1942, when she was converted for troop carrying. She became a hospital ship in 1943, and early this year she brought Dutch evacuees to New Zealand from the Netherlands East Indies. The Dutch evacuees who will board the Tasman on Saturday will travel with her to Wellington, where about 170 more Dutch nationals will embark. The Tasman is expected to leave Wellington on Tuesday, and will go to Brisbane, Sydney. Melbourne. Perth, and Batavia. All of the evacuees are returning to the Netherlands East Indies. As soon as conditions permit, it is expected that the Tasman will revert to her former commercial passenger cervice between the Malay States, the Netherlands East Indies, and New Zealand.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26226, 9 August 1946, Page 6
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202TASMAN RETURNS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26226, 9 August 1946, Page 6
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