ORDERLY CONDUCT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 8

ORDERLY CONDUCT.

CIVILIANS IN CAMP. NO COMPIiAINTS RECEIVED. GENERAL YOUNG'S IMPRESSIONS. (B.v Telegraph.—"Star" Special Reporter.) NAPIER, this day. General Young, Commander of the New Zealand Military Forces, left this morning, for Wellington to confer with the Minister of Defence, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, on the question of camps and the repatriation of Napier residents. En route he will visit Palmerston North and other places where refugees are being cared for. Referring to the Nelson Park camp at Napier General Young said the camp was being well run and improving daily. It appeared as though it would be in existence for a considerable time and had been given for the erection of semi-permanent hutments for cooking and serving meals. He did not know exactly what would be the position in the event of rain, but the whole question would be considered in Wellington. The district had so far been most fortunate in having a spell of dry weather. What impressed him more than anything, said General Young, was the orderly conduct of the 1000 civilians in camp. Their behaviour was exemplary and it was proof of the training so many had received in the Great War or in the territorial forces. He had noticed men, and women too, line up in queues for hot rations without the slightest disorder. He had received 110 complaints j and all of the people in camp had shoAvn gratefulness for what had been done for them.