AUSTRALIAN HOLIDAY
.«. RETURNED SOLDIERS' SONS PARTY OF G 4 SELECTED Some months ago the Australian Imperial Forces Wives and Children's Holiday Association invited a party of 50 sons of New Zealand returned soldiers to Sydney for a holiday. The invitation was made through the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association. Immediaite action was taken 'to see if 50 bovs could be found for the trip. Several hundred offered and recently the Australian association asked: the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association to send 64 boys as 64 branches of the New Zealand, Returned Soldiers' Association had hoys ready to go. The majority of the boys will congregate in Wellington on Sunday, April 2, and those from the southern portion of the North Island will join them on the following day. They will sail by the Awatea at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 3, and will spend about a fortnight at Furlough House, Narrabeen, near Sydney. Mr. J. Robertson, author of "With the Cameliers in Palestine," and a former school 'inspector, will be officer [p. charge, and Mrs. G. G. Bell, of who served during the Great War as Sister E. E. Hooper, will accompany the party as matron.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 8
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196AUSTRALIAN HOLIDAY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 8
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