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C Company cooks in camp at Palmerston North in 1941. Sitting in front (centre, are B. Kingi and Weti Te-Ao (Thompson), both from Hauiti, Tolaga Bay, Both were subsequently killed in action in the Tunisian campaign. Standing at left is M. Jones, Manutuke.

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"Final leave" buses about to leave Tolaga Bay on March 27th, 1940, with members of C Company. The white bus at rear is still operated as a school bus by owner-driver F. Herbert.

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A familiar landmark on the main Napier-to-Wellington highway...the chapel of Te Aute College, Pukehou, Hawkes Bay.

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An experience old-timers will remember clearly.... loading passengers by basket at Tokomaru Bay. The ship was possibly the Arahura.

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No colourbar at this sandpit at Hauiti. Facing camera are Colin Smith and Mini Kutia.

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Former Pioneer Battalion (World War 1) members meet again in Tolaga Bay. Left, James Thompson (received commission at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1916). At right Karu Puhipuhi. In front, Te Wiriwiri Wirihana. Rear, Maura Rehua. The first three were on Gallipoli and France with the battalion.