WARDERS AND DISCIPLINE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 278, 22 November 1915, Page 6

WARDERS AND DISCIPLINE.

1 ' h 1 INQUIRY CONTINUED.■'* .' \ The commission set up to hear certain j charges of insubordination made against l George Hunter C'atos, a warder at the . Mount Eden Gaol, continued its sittings s this morning. Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M., < presided, and Mr. C. E. Matthews, In- < epector of Prisons, appeared for the Justice Department; and Mr. Hall Skelton \ for Cates. The charges against the , latter were in regard to compulsory phy- ( sieal exercises, which it was alleged he j carried out in a negligent manner, and *( hot according to orders. i( Warder John Bryan, drill instructor, \ continuing his evidence, stated in answer j to Mr. Hall Skelton, that he had not i " got Cates set," and he had never shaken s his fist in Cates' face in a threatening manner. He had no personal animosity j against him, and so far as lie knew, ( Catea did all his duties, except drill, ( satisfactorily. ~ Peter McGrath, and Arthur William Kitteridge, probationary warders, gave , evidence as to Gates' behaviour at pby-1 j sical drill, and arguments that tooJ; | j place between Cates and the instructor. ■ They stated that Cates did not do his , drill as well as the rest of the squad, and that Bryan generally gave his instruction to the squad distinctly and well, with few mistakes. Thie concluded the evidence for the Prisons Department. Cates, called by Mr. Hall Skelton, stated that he entered the prison service in October 1913, after nine years' ser- ( vice in the Royal New Zealand Artillery. ( His discharges and his record wore as i good as any obtainable by a soldier. Pro- c viously he had served in the South i African war. j j The inquiry is proceeding, i