HOMEWARD BOUND.
TWO MORE DRATFFS HOMEWARD BOUND.
WELLINGTON, April 11
Two more steamers have left England with New Zealand troops. These are the Arawa, which left on April 1, and is due on the 12th or 13th. of May with a complement of 585 soldiers, 95 women, and 33 children; and the Rimutaka, which left on the sth April, and is due on the 17th May, with a complement of 647 soldiers, 12 women, and eight children. So far as can be ascertained, the Devon, which left Suez on the sth April for New Zealand ports, had no New Zealand troopa on board. It is presumed, therefore, that the draft allocated to her was retained in Egypt on account of the recent disturbances. It is possible that .further vessels may have left England between the date of the Rimutaka's departure and yesterday's polling.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3396, 16 April 1919, Page 8
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143HOMEWARD BOUND. Otago Witness, Issue 3396, 16 April 1919, Page 8
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