IDLE RUMOURS.
TALES ABOUT TRANSPORTS. FINDING THE FIRST LIAR. Press Association. WELLINGTON, October 4. "I deprecate in the strongest possible terms these idle rumours which are in circulation about our transports," said the Hon. J. Allen (Minister of Defence) (o a reporter to-day. "There have been persistent rumours thai one of our transports has been sunk. The public must understand that if any such information came to me it would he immediately made public. There is no reason to withhold it. Sad as Ihe news might he, it would he made known. Such rumours as have been circulated are not only idle; they are wicked, and they make thousands of people miserable.
"There is a rumour that there is something wrong with the Tahiti. She is perfectly safe. Both of the transports thai conveyed the 15th Reinforcement have reached their destination safely. Ido hope people who hear these baseless rumours will write me and tell me who it was told them. If they do that, I will trace the rumour to its .source, and sec if I can slop anything of the kind happening in future."
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 828, 5 October 1916, Page 8
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186IDLE RUMOURS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 828, 5 October 1916, Page 8
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