MILITARY CAMPS.
ORGANISATION STATISTICS.
I WELLINGTON, May 14. Giving evidence before the Defence Expenditure Commission, Colonel Adams said the establishment allowed him at Featherston, including Tauherenikau and Papawai, was; 1256. , The number employed was 1144, including 53 on canteens and! not paid by the State. There were 5800 men in training. Colonel Potter said the number of men in training at Trentham was about 3000, and the number allowed on the establishment was about 900. The,present number employed was about 760. Colonel Adams gave figures showing that in most cases the ration scale was considerably overdrawn. The*, men, he said, ate very much more oni first coming into camp than afterwards.—Press Assn;
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Northern Advocate, 15 May 1918, Page 2
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