N.Z. SERVICEMEN WALK OFF LINER
Recd. 9 p.m. London, Nov. 11. One thousand men from a draft embarked for repatriation to Australia and New Zealand walked off the liner Orion at Southampton yesterday, after inspecting the quartAn officer among the draft embarked on the liner told the “Newa of the World”: “The ship Is very clean, but hopelessly overcrowded. If 50 per cent, of the m« ’ aboard were removed the Orion would still be uncomfortably crowded. We expect a certain amount of hardship, but see no reason why we should tolerate the nresent condtio is. We understand the Australian Government is paying £lOO an officer for our passages.” It is understood arrangement* have been made for a total of more than 8000 members of the services to sail.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 5
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