22ND REINFORCEMENTS.
TO LEAVE TO-MORROW MORNING, i QUOTA FROM DISTRICT.
The 22nd Reinforcement Draft from Group 20 will mobilise in the Wanganui Drill Hall to-day, and is to proqtxd to camp to-morrow morning. i The drafts from all parts of the Wanganui district will arrive here on Monday at 1.10 p.m. The mobilisation of tbe whole draft, from areas 20 and 2L will take place at the Drill Hall at 2 p.m., after which general routine business will be attended to and palliasses and blankets will be issued.
The men will be accorded a public farewell by citizens of Wanganui at the Druids' Hall on Monday evening, and will put in the night at the Drill Hall.
At 6.55 a.m. on Tuesday the men will entrain for camp, tinder the command of Major Harper, assisted by Sergeant-Major Bowker. At Paimerston North the men will be provided with refreshment, and will leave for camp by special train at 11.3.5 a.m., arriving at Wellington at 3-37 p.m., and Trentham at about 5 o'clock in the evening.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16775, 16 October 1916, Page 4
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17422ND REINFORCEMENTS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16775, 16 October 1916, Page 4
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