INCIDENT ON TRANSPORT.
SIGNING OF PETITION. BREACH OF MILITARY LAW. . -j [by telegraph.— correspondent.] Wellington, Wednesday. The Minister for Defence made a lengthy reply to-day to the question regarding the incident on Transport 49, which was asked by Mr. C. H. Poole, last week, in the House. In reply the Minister says— " The matter of a number of men, including 12 non-commissioned officers, signing a petition is not in accord with military law, which provides full opportunity for the presentation of any grievance, and the officer commanding {he force' was quite within his rights in characterising this action in very strong terms. In the absence of a report from the officer commanding on the matter I am not prepared to make any comment on the terms alleged to have been used by him in addressing the petitioners. . . . The
non-commissioned officers and men wowld be fully aware that if individual representation to the officer of the day brought no attention they were quite within their rights in making further reference to "the source of complaint to the officer commanding, through their immediate company officers."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16268, 29 June 1916, Page 8
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183INCIDENT ON TRANSPORT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16268, 29 June 1916, Page 8
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