DETENTION BARRACKS
ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. * FULL INVESTIGATION TO BE MADE. Referring to the alleged ill-treatment of prisoners at the Wanganui Detention Barracks the Hon. Sir James Allen (Acting-Prime Minister and Minister for Defence) informed a limes representative yesterday that statements had been made to him that prisoners had been ill-treated there, and he had had some preliminary inl faTr T m b de al + r l ! ady ;, 7 he r °P°rt*, so AIW « t thom V addod Sir Ja me a Allen seem to indicate that thincs are satisfactory; but I om not satisfied that this is so, and am taking s t eps to have a 'full investigation mlde. In structions were given, when a Defence officer recently visited' the detention barraoks, that no ill-treatment of the .prisoners was to bo allowed. T hlxrl also issued separate instructions myself to the same effeot."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9998, 15 June 1918, Page 8
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