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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144710, 19 June 1915, Page 3

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WOUNDED FROM DARDANELLES. SYDNEY, June 18. Mr. Holman has received information that tho first batch of Dardanelles wounded aro en route to Australia. INFERIOR BOOTS IFOR SOLDIERS. (Received Juno I'.),- 9.15 a.m.) PERTH, Juno 19. Tho Defence Department has debarred a certain firm from further tenders for soldiers’ boots. Employees working in the factory state that not an ounce of bad material was used in the boots complained of. BELATED CASUALTY LISTS. (Received Juno 19, 9.50 am.) SYDNEY, Juno 19. Thoro aro many complaints as to the ■ belated nows and wrong information in the official casualty lists. It is evident from private letters that Corporal Larkin, M.P., was' killed prior to May 1. His relatives wore officially notified on Juno 17. AUSTRALIA DAY COLLECTIONS. (Received Juno 19, 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, Juno 19. Mr, Hugh Ward has definitely rotired from tho Australia Day movement. Ho has presented tho fund with £I7OO. THE AUSTRALIA’S VOYAGE. ’ fßecoivod Juno 19, 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, Juno 19. A sailor on board tho Australia, writes -that the vessel’s voyage constitutes a record never equalled in tho history of tho world. She has travelled 40,000 miles in six months, and has still 7500 miles to cover before she reaches her destination. FORTY-FIRST CASUALTY LIST. (Received June 19, 1.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Juno 19. Tho forty-first casualty list is as follows : Died of Wounds.—Captains Campbell and Hill. Wounded. —Lieutenant-Colonels Midi, Stoddart and Courtney; Captains MacArtnoy, Cameron, Cameron. Watkins, Cowper, Simpson and Chambers; Lieutenants Warren, Dagar, Davey and Burkett. Missing.—Lieutenant Hanley. Killed in Action.—Thirty-five noncoms. and men. Died of wounds- fourteen; of illness, five. Wounded.—Ono hundred and thirtyfive men, including J. Mahon, a New Zealander. Dangerously 111.—Ten men. Missing.—Seventy-seven men, including J. Av. and T. R.-Milcs, New; Zoa-. landers.