MILITARY LOSSES.
STORES AND EQUIPMENT. SLING CAMP RIOTS RECALLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Auditor-General reports that the ordnance service has been unable to 'allocate responsibility for losses of certain stores, clothing and equipment in military districts, and the following sums have been written off: Wellington Military District, £14,787; Auckland Military District, £9006; Canterbury Military District, £2532. The loss of stores and clothing to the value of £274 at the Trentham and Eeatherston military camps is attributed to the disorganisation brought about by the influenza epidemic. Inability to allocate responsibility for the loss to the individuals concerned is tho reason given for writing off a sum of £8272 in respect of damages done by the New Zealand troops at Sling Camp on March 14 and 15, 1919. The Repatriation Deportment lias written off a sum of £7BG in respect of loans to returned soldiers who have left the country, failed in ? business, suffered loss by fire, or who have died.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1920, Page 5
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