THE TIME OF SERVICE OF THE SIXTH CONTINGENT.
(Fbom Our Own Cohhespoxdext.) WELLINGTON, August 12.
Some trouble appears to have arisen in South Africa in connection with the length of service of the sixth contingent, which left New Zealand under Colonel Banks. They are asking to be allowed to return at the expiration of six months from the date of arrival in South Africa, and as they went away from here last January that term has now expired, but the Imperial authorities decline to give them permission to return. Mr Seddon has been cabled to from South Africa by the sixth, but he is afraid that no definite arrangement was made at the time of their departure as to the period for which they were to seive, as was done in the case of all the other contingents. He is now making inquiries into the matter. From some conversation. I had with him this evening
he seems to think that the request of the sixth is a reasonable one.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2474, 14 August 1901, Page 27
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169THE TIME OF SERVICE OF THE SIXTH CONTINGENT. Otago Witness, Issue 2474, 14 August 1901, Page 27
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