RETURNED WOUNDED.
TOFUA ARRIVES TO-DAY. (Per United Press Association.') DUNEDIN, October id, Tiic troojishij) Tofua is expected hero at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. She has six col cases, 09 hospital cases, and 305 others. The cot cases will be sent to the hospital to-morrow, but the other men remain on the steamer till Wednesday morning, when a civic reception will take place at the Drill Hall, after which those able to travel will leave for their homes. The men going north are travelling by the second express. Those for the south will leave by special train at 11.4U a.in. ARRANGEMENTS FOR NORTH ISLAND CASES. WELLINGTON', October 25. An announcement was made this afternoon by the Defence authorities in regard la the North Island soldiers who are returning from the front by the Tofua, due at Port Chalmers at 3 p.m. tenia; row. The present arrangement ithat the North Island eases will lea’ Port Chalmers on Wednesday morning 1 > rnecial train and come on to Wclliugl- v that night by steamer, arriving bore ■ i Thursday morning. Auckland cases v T be taken north from here by the liospit; 1 train lea’dug Wellington about rnidda ' on Thursday. Tho Defence Departmei • wisfe-i it ta be understood clearly ft’:-ii'-xt-of kiu who have concession or f. ■ tickets must travel by the hospital tra. or else pay their own way.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14745, 26 October 1915, Page 3
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224RETURNED WOUNDED. Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14745, 26 October 1915, Page 3
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