THREE TRANSPORTS ARRIVE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14555, 16 March 1918, Page 5

THREE TRANSPORTS ARRIVE.

SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS

MAIN BODY MEN ON FURLOUGH

, (Por. .Presp. Association.) ... AUCKLAND, last night. Transports Nos. 147 and 148 arrived this afternoon, and No. 149 is due at 10 o'clock. On transport *147 are a few limbless men and one or two on crutches, but all are well on the way to recovery.. There are a number of Main Body artillerymen on furlough. There are seven decorated men, including one D.C.M. and six Military Medals. . . . On transport 148,. 50 or 60 men have lost one limb, and there are also many severely wounded, but no actual* cot casesw " There are a number oi Main Body men. There are decorated men, including, two. D.S.O.'s. . .... The men for the southern part of- the North Island and for the South Island from the three transports will leave/here by the transports to-morrcw.

The following names of Gisborne men (and next-of-kin or friends) appear m the lists of those to. arrive. by the.transports, which have reached Auckland : — 2nd. -Lieut. Leo William Butler, clerk (Mr. Charles Butler, Gisborne). Pte. Cecil Cameron, laborer (Mr. H. .D. Cameron, 367 Cameron ro&d, Gisborne). ' Pffe. Reginald Edward Clarke,, clerk (Mr. R. E. Clarke, Taruheru, Gisborne). Pte. Louis' Dolman, fruitgrower (Mr. John T. Dolman, Patutahi). Pte. James Arthur Hill, laborer (Mrs. R. Lloyd, Wainui road, Kaiti). Cpl. John 'Arthur 'Hunt, plumber (Mrs. W-Hunt, 92 Awapuni road, Gisborne). Pte. Thomas Hyde, carter (Mr. H. Hyde, Patutahi, Gisborne). Pte. Rua Kainuku,. drover (Tanoi Kai- ; nukii, Manntuke, Gisborne). Pte\ Clarence Raymond McKay, shepherd (Miss I). McKay, 251 Ormond road, Gisborne). .. Ptp. Arthur William Merritt, , fireman (Mrs. M. C. Merritt, 16 McLean ' street, Whataupoko, Gisborne). . . Pte. William Robert Morell, bootmaker (Mrs. O. J. Morell, Gisborne). '„ Pte. Patrick William O'Brien, laborer (Miss F. Gallagher, Gisborne). Pte. Claude. . O'-Flaherty, laborer (Mr. Leonard O'Flaherty, G.P.0., Gisborne). Pte. John Smoke, laborer (Tame Smoke. Mnmititke, Gisborne). -.. Pte. Albert Stark, bookmaker (Mr Stanley W. Stark,. 248 Gladstone road., • Gisborne). Pte. Christopher George Tyson (Mrs^ E. M. Tyson, 56 Wi Pere street, Gisborne). . Pte. Albert Charles Williams, laborer (Mr. Henry Williams, P.O. box 266; • Gisborne). Gnr.. James Eric , Winter, bank clerk (Mr. Isaac Winter, Stoiit street, Gisborne). 2nd-Lieut. John Leonard Bellerby, farmhand (Mr. A. L. Bellerby, Te Wera, . Rakauroa). Pte'. Harold John Daulton, coach driver (Mrs. S. J. Daulton, Manntuke, Gis borne). Pte. John Maurice Dower, clerk (Mrs. T. Dower, 264,Whitaker street, Gisborne). . Pte. William George Gray, fellmonger (Mrs. S. G. Gray, 104 Crawford , road, Gisborne). , . Pte. Thomas Harding, Carpenter (Mrs. M. Clark, 8 Hall street, Gisborne). Rflm. John Kape, horse trainer (Mrs. M. Hotui, Whatatutu). . . Pte. Arthur George Lincoln, saddler (Mrs E. J. Lincoln, Tolaga Bay). • Spr. Malcolm McDonald, mechanic (Mrs. E. McDonald, 51 Stout street, .Gis- . borne). Pte. Matthew Donald Mulloolly, grocer's assistant (Mr. ,M. Mulloolly^, Ormond, Gisborne). Pte. Para Kohn, laborer (Mo Pohatri;. Manutuke, Gisborne). Pte. Robert Petherbridge, carpenter (Mr.' Arthur Petherbridge, Glenbnrn street, Motu, Gisborne). . . Sergt. James Benjamin Poynter, sheep.farmer (Mrs. M. H. .Poynter, Te Karaka). ■-"■■. Pte. Ronald Graham, shepherd : (Mr. J. F. Graham, Rototahi Station; private bag, Gisborne). ' Pte. Thomas Wells > Hanna, laborer (Mr. . S. Hanna, Kaiti, Gisborne). . Pte. Pita Hoana, laborer, Pio Hoana (Tolaga Bay,' Gisborne). Pte. Hugh Marshall, fencer (Mrs. S. Marshall, near Cook's Monument, • Kaiti, Gisborne). Pte. Jas. Alexander Mulloolly. hairdresser (Mrs. Mulloolly, Ormond, Gisborne). \ Pte. D. Niven, blacksmith (Mrs: S. J. Niven, Patutahi, Gisborne). Pte. Frederick Swainson,' lab6rer' (Miss . . Ivy Swainson, Te Karaka, Gisborne). Pte. Isaac Chadwick " Taylor, painter ; (Mrs. E. Taylor, Gisborne). Pte. John Taylor, bushman (Mi\. Mc- ; Kenzie Bain, Record Reign Hotel. .-'■> Gisborne). Pte. James Thompson j sheepfarmer (Mr. '",■, J. Thompsonj, Motu). -, ■ Pte. Hichard -Dudley Ward, schoolmas- ;. ter (Rev. E. Waffl, • Waerenga-a- --• hika). . »>; t Sefgt.-Inst. George -Williarii ... Webster, compositor (Mrs* B. Gedye, 308 . Clif- ;'. ford street). / . /, Pte. Thomas Whelan, ,' laborer (Mrsi.W. -' Byrne, care prrnond- P,O. (Gisborne).