A GERMAN PRISONER
EXPLANATION BY DEFENCE MINISTER. A printed reply was given by - the Defence Minister in the House of Representatives yesterday to the following question put to him by Mr J. Vigor Brown: Whether be knows, and, if not, whether ho will inquire as to the truth of the statement, that one of the prisoners at Motuhihi Island comes over to the mainland fairly often m tlie week and takes a motor-car (always the same chauffeur) and with the guard motors to whore his wife lives, and they then go to one of the seaside resorts, generally St. Heliers Bay, and there the German and his wile leave the car and the guard, and they ore away for two or three hours, and, it is understood, he meets another German who was at one time a prisoner on the island, but was released? The Minister’s reply was as follows: “Nothing is known of this matter by Headquarters, Auckland Military District. I am informed that only one prisoner bias been off the island for some considerable time, and this man was given permission by me to visit wife, who was at that tune an inmate of the Mental Hospital, but has since rejoined her husband on the island.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9788, 11 October 1917, Page 5
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208A GERMAN PRISONER New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9788, 11 October 1917, Page 5
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