North Otago Times

V 979

.RaTURDAV, -ADGCS'AJ 30 1902

PUBLISHED DAILY

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TROOPERS WELCOME AT NGAPARA.
.N'gajip.ra was thoroughly "an fail ' on Thuriday when the ix'swleiits extended a welcome to the lads who had gone from that dis trict to light the battles of their country in South Africa and return ed to their native place in safety. Oi the many who have served their King with credit to themselves and to the land of their birth, Nga para has sent iUs muota, spec ally selecting and equipping a rcprcsenla live for Ihe Fourth Contingent, and also conlr billing in men to the strength of subsequent contingents. Most (il llit'in have, now relumed, and the residents of the wide k\ga para iTislrict, iletenniniiig not ti/bc hchiml hand in honouring those who have shed so much lustre on their native p ace, tendered them a social, which, for numbers of those present for unbounded unthusjasm, and for success surpassed anything held for years there. From all parts of the Tables, From Diiiilroon, Toto-rahi, and Enlield came those anxious lo late a hand in the ceremony of welcome; others from Oamarti, re turned troopers and pipers lor , the most part, and even Dimediii was j represented TTi this representative collection.
