NEW ZEALAND IN ARMS.
AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT. WELLINGTON, January 14-.
A very complete report, setting out in brief summary" form, the record of NewZealand in arms in this war, has been prepared. It is to be printed, and it will remain for long one. of the most important documents in the country's archives. One of the most important of the facts the reports 'will disclose is that New Zealand actually sent abroad on active service 9.2 per cent of her population. This figure takes no account of the thousands of men —about 12,000—in camp when the armistice was signed. Colonel Gibbons's report will be > in no small measure an account of his own achievement, for ever since the senior officers of the Defence Forces left here with the Main Body ho has been the head and front of the New Zealand and the chief adviser and helper of the Defence Minister. He is retiring from tho army on his return to his own country (Ireland). By his service in New Zealand ho has forfeited any.chances he might have had of a military career, and he is going to settle on his own land. Since he ha* been in New Zealand his father has died, and he is taking over the control of the family estate.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3384, 22 January 1919, Page 9
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215NEW ZEALAND IN ARMS. Otago Witness, Issue 3384, 22 January 1919, Page 9
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