RETURNING SOLDIERS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151034, 28 July 1919, Page 4

RETURNING SOLDIERS.

THE .RIJAPEHU DRAFT.. lUn»tei> Pkess Association-.] nru x Wellington, j«i s 2T. lhc transport Ruapehu, from" Jbiagland, with troops, berthed at 2.30, thi*. afternoon. The men were .riven i hearty reception. Excellent weather was experienced the- trip xhe vessel brought 401 soldiers, 175 soli diers' wives, and ,6s: children; Wellington city men were' the only ones who left the Ruapehu permanently to-day. There were 87 of them, and a number of them-, were accompanied by their wives, on whom confetti was showered as they stepped off the gangS ay.:-. l J hose bouild for ports other thaa Wellington were- granted short leave and^returnedtetheship.for the night* as there was no accommodation for them m Wellmgtpjioi ' Picton Blenheim, and Nelson men sail by the Mapourika- at aoon to-mor-row.