AT PORTS OF CALL
NEW'ZEM/ANDEBS 1 CONDUCT.
' Recently a Mrs. Oliver surprised a 'Melbourne audience with allegations aspersing the conduct of New Zealand soldiers at Albany. The Minister of Defence wrote- to the municipal authorities of Albany for official information, and received the follT.ving reply from the Town Clerk, completely clearing the maligned men: — " I have the honour by direction to draw your attention to a report in a recent issue of the West Australian Daily News of the speech of Mrs. A. C. Oliver in the Melbourne Town Hall in which she made serious allegations about the conduct of troops passing through Albany. I am directel by my council to emphatically protest against' the incorrect statements of this lady. As you are aware, thousands of troops from New Zealand and the eastern. States have passed through our town, and their conduct has been most exemplary. - The Mayor has testified to this to yourself, -to the New Zealand authorities, and to the very many officers passing through. Wild and exaggerated statements of this kind are not warranted, and do the town great injury, injury which it certainly does not merit. The splendid conduct of the troops at Albany is a byword throughout the States.'*
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 16, 18 July 1918, Page 8
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204AT PORTS OF CALL Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 16, 18 July 1918, Page 8
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