NEW ZEALAND'S SIXTH CONTINGENT.
* RETURNED TROOPERS REJECTED i FOR HORSEMANSHIP. (Per Press Association.) ■= . WELLINGTON, this day. There are 426 men m camp at Newtown Park, including 18 returned troopers. The contingent has been divided into five companies, Nos. .1 and 2 Wellington and Nelson, No. 3 Otago, No. 4 Canterbury, No. 5 Auckland. Telegraphed instructions have been received to include m its strength seven 'members of the Federal Contingent, and 13 of the men now returning m the Orient. Twenty of the Canterbury detachment were rejected on the riding test, and have left the camp. One man rejected for want of horsemanship was a returned trooper, and another such is m danger of being set aside. Neither was m any previous New Zealand contingent, both having enlisted m the Cape Corps.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9043, 11 January 1901, Page 3
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131NEW ZEALAND'S SIXTH CONTINGENT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9043, 11 January 1901, Page 3
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