TRENTHAM CAMP.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 181, 3 August 1915, Page 2

TRENTHAM CAMP.

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY,

AVELLINGTON, Aug. 2. Expert evidence regarding hutments was given before the Trentham Gamp Commission to-day by George* Robb, architect. The witness detailed his experience of hutments in South Africa, New Zealand, and else-where. lliiis led him to believe that the use of .iron* "was not economical, as it intensified the temperature, and to render huts comfortable and healthy it was necessary to line them with some non-con-ductor, such as asbestos, canvas, or wood. The huts Kit the Boer concentration camps at Maritzburg were of canvas, being so constructed as a reP" suit of the experience gained at Ladysmith, where there was much illness as a result of living in unlhred tin huts. Temporary hospitals erected in England were lined and ceiled with esbestos, and he believed were of wood and iron. Bushmen and navvies in. New Zealand preferred canvas or wooden huts or tents to unlined iron halts, which they would not sleep in.