RETURNING SOLDIERS.
THE RUAHINE DRAFT. • . [Pbb Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 8. The Ruahine, with returning draft No. 260, berthed at 7.10 tliis morning. Disembarkation occupied twenty minutes. The troops aboard numbered'B9o, the women 139, and children 31. Good weather was experienced on the voyage from Plymouth, with the exception of a few days’- choppy seas when nearing New Zealand, the men were given a great reception at ■ Newport News, where they remained for a week. During the voyage four children died. J. Rainbow, a sick passenger, jumped overboard at Gatun Lock, and was drowned.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12687, 8 July 1919, Page 6
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