 They said if something could not be done, mass suicide might result.After the end of the war they also worried that they could be attacked in New Zealand over the conditions in Japanese prisoner of war camps.The prisoners were transported in two trains from Featherston to Wellington and left on 30 December 1945 for Japan on two large American tank landing ships, "LST 273" and "LST 275", which were under Lieutenant Commander R P Rudolph.