OUR SOLDIERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 1 July 1915, Page 8

OUR SOLDIERS

AN AUCKLAND VISITOR TO THE " " CAMP.

WELLINGTON, June 30. "I went to Trentham looking for complaint's," said Mr H. H. D. Wily, of'Pukokohc, Auckland, to your representative, "mid I found none. Air Vv'iiv. who is a school teacher added J thst':n Auckland some talk had been | heai-d about the camp, and when he announced his intention or visiting Wc-lUii-'ton. and incidentally Trentham, on a holiday trip, he was asked by tiie mothers of 'several of his ex-pupils who ar » nlrrndv in camp if he would keep his c--.es <>i;oa r:ud ascertain what subetnr.ee i):?vo was in some of the veporc.fi which had been metis. He visited t'^e c-muo vi'fch the express intention of clisr-Vpr'n- any genuine grievpn.--"; that n:<iht exist, and for trust pi—mse bo .iUdo a very thorough in- j section of everything, and, to use his own expression,' "poked about" in every ro-JKM- or th* 3 place. Among the j lritv-' v.-Itii whoa U'r V»'ily conversed t'j-.e coin'on seemed to be that those vA'o liiade all the hiss were the m_al-c>r.i;--'.its ?r-\ rnon oi: that t;-pe. He snv.' ihe hutnients. cockhoustrS, batiiir.l* place-, etc.. nnd everything, he thoVi^ht. v.as most satisfactory. He a'lWspok? to one lot of men numberjn<x 60 ; and not on? of them had any ano:'etv exc-(V5t the tloing of his best to remain fit and r.crr.ui-0 skill in his v/ork. —War gr.nui Chronicle.