YESTERDAY'S EVIDENCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8214, 11 August 1915, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S EVIDENCE.

WELLINGTON, August 10. . The Trentham Camp _ Commission continued its sittings this afternoon, his Honour Mr Justice Hosting presiding. •■ Pc 11. W...Holmes, engineer-m-chief or the Public Works Department, detailed the work in progress at the camp, but said that separate messing accommodation was not being provided. His Honour remarked that this was recommended by the doctors, who approved of a return to the camp. The Solicitor-General said it had since been ascertained from the Imperial Government that messing accommodation was not essential. The Government had to look at the . matter from a. practical point of view. His Honour said it -was for the Government to decide, but the arrangement did not appear sanitary. Dr. Chas. Mnnro Hector, as a member of the Medical Board which recommended the rcoccupation of Trentham Camp, said hp quite agreed with tlie report by Colonel Valintine. .Ho considered the provision of nursing accommodation an important matter, which should still receive attention. A sum of £2000 or £3000 would be well spent in the provision of nursing accommodation.' He did not consider it necessary to line the huts. Dr. Salmond to Dr. Hector:. Would you consider it dangerous to their health for them to have their dinner in the hut? Witness: Yes, because it would lead to' overcrowding and the contamination of the atmosphere " Sleeping! accommodation ought to bo reserved for that purpose. - C H. Ward, works manager for R. Hannah and Co., Ltd., was examined by Mr Gray regarding the boots supplied under contract. . ,■ J. W. Campbell, a member 'of the Advisory JBoard,. gave further evidence j upholding the use of galvanised .iron in the construction of the hutments.,. Private Roy Glen stated that he was n racecourse hospital.-patient oh June ;21. Two days later Private Badger ! became a patient. They were afterj wards at the kiosk, Badger being on I the floor next to him. Witness had two j nsperin tablets after every meal for 'nine days. Badger had the tablets also. Dr. Frongloy explained various points jthot had been considered in connection ! w'th the hutments. They had not been j placed in echelon on account of the I prevailing nor'-west wind. The joining j of two together had also been oonsider T 'ed in the same connection. The rabic space available had been carefully ! marked out. but on account of the i infectious diseases which had broken jout, he was in favour of the reduction ■ of men per hutment to 30. ) The Commission adjourned sine die.