COLONEL REPRIMANDED.
RESULT OF THE GAMBLING. The findings of the court-martial which recently sat to hear charges of alleged offences preferred against LieutenantColonel C. L. Prior, contrary to paragraph 90 of the King's regulations, has been promulgated. Lieutenant-Colonel Prior was ordered to be severely reprimanded. Originallyi Lieutenant-Colonel Prior was charged with conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, in that he, in London on February 17, 1915. when commanding officer of the No. 1 Reserve Transport Depot at Deptford, invited several officers serving under his command to accompany him to a house in Connaught Square, W., for the purpose of gambling, and himself gambled in their company. Paragraph 90 in the Kinc'fl regulai/ons requires that a commanding officer ahall discountenance any disposition in his officer* to gamble,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16032, 25 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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