Indignant Volunteers.

Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9974, 21 June 1901, Page 1

Indignant Volunteers.

SCENE ON THE PARADE GROUND

, (Per FnM Ai«oci»tion.) . t! WELLINGTON,"June 20. The trouble over badly, cooked ' . rations and the prevailing^ discom- 1 - fort in camp of the volunteers at Newtown led to a scene on the parade jground tfrday when. Colonel Pole^ ; Petition visited the camp and^inVeigh-' ed igs&net *he action of "certain"men " who had supplied newspaper..- men with particulars of their grievances and against certain volunteers , who had paraded, in the vicinity"..of" GrOT; ernmenfc House yesterday with samples of badly cooked food hoisted on a pole. He told the men that there were some infernal curs in the \.* ranks, and said that, a,.searchingenuiry would be held into the matter. The real source of the trouble , sietQß to be the departure from the -,— ", old course of leaving the cuisine ar- . 4 rangements in the hands of Quarter- ■'J masters of the respective Battalions.' ..,' .There have been unbounded complaints, and the contractor rightly '■' or wrongly is blamed for the manner • - in which he discharged the duties he had undertaken.

Lieut.-Colonel Sommerville, who is in charge of the encampment wa£, - % instructed by the. Commandant to have the men identified who had taken a leading part in the uproar, but it is understood thajb this, has [been, li-onQceeßSful. , ) _' I whole proceeding., .-'; >r^^'^'!Sii'-:v?Jf