EARLY INQUIRY
- CONDITIONS AT A FORT.
ALLEGATIONS OF DRINKING.
OUTCOME OF COURT-MARTIAL
(Per Press Association)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day
An immediate inquiry has been ordered by Brigadier O, H. Mead, Officer Commanding the Southern Military District, into statements made at the court-martial at Battery Point yesterday, that 80 bottles of beer were consumed in one afternoon at the fort. A Court-of Inquiry has already been set up to conduct the investigation. Brigadier Mead pointed out to-day that there was no indication in the evidence prepared for the court-martial that liquor had been consumed at the fort, and it was only when this was revealed by cross-examination and in defence that the allegation became: known.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 42, 29 November 1940, Page 6
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