NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.
" STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER. AUCKLAND, April 15
Discussing the dominion's casualty list, which a Press Association message stated yesterday totalled 57,929 in killed and wounded on March 31, the Minister of Defence said this morning that, as published, the list was misleading. There had been this number of casualties, it was true, but rhany of them recovered and had been discharged, though on the other hand a certain percentage of wounded would bepermanently disabled. Altogether,. 1449 officers had been gazetted out of service, while 31,986 non-commissioned officers and men had been discharged from the main expeditionary force, in addition to whioh 1357 officers .and men had been gazetted out and discharged from the Samoa force of occupation, making a total of . 34,792 officers and men, a large proportion of whom had returned to New Zealand as casualties. At the present time, added the Minister, there were in the dominion 616 hospital in-patients, 617 in convalescent homes, 2704 out-patients, and 240 on sick leave, making a further 3977 men. Sir James added that he hoped the last of our sick and wounded soldiers.would leave England this month.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3397, 23 April 1919, Page 17
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