SLING CAMP RIOT

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1919, Page 8

SLING CAMP RIOT

-aUCKLANDERS "NOT CONCERNED.

(dX-.TELEaRAPH.—PRESS 'ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLA'NT^This Day. Reference was made by one of the officers who returned by. the Northumberland to the disturbance <ot Sling Camp in March last. '.'.Ho. stated that no Alible^ landers were concerned in tho riot, 'arid that shortly before the trouble commenced tho Auckland. Battalion was/removed to another camp on Lark Hill,' about three miles away, because of-the large; number of men-Arriving at ■ Sling. One of the chief oauses.'. of1 dissatisfaction among the men at Sling- was that many soldiers who recently1 arrived from New f Zealand, and had,'never been in France,-•.were \givon preference over the men who had been on active service for a considerable time in tho matter of returning to Now Zoa-, land. A great deal of mismanagement had taken place in regard to tho embarkation of New Zealanders... Men worq instructed to embark on a certain ship, and on the eve of doing so were given fresh instructions.- -They-'wore,- naturallygreatly disappointed,.. A day or'two,later, information was received by the officers of Liark HiirCam'p' thnf'a"VisifmigKt"be' expected from- -some ■of -the■.rioters at Sung. These men .duly, arrived,',but,tho. Auckland men refused to have anything to do with them. ' ' ' . '