CHARGES AGAINST OFFICERS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 6

CHARGES AGAINST OFFICERS.

ADMINISTRATION OF REGIMENTAL FUNDS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, February 2. lt> is rumoured that certain military, officers holding important commissions, both in the Territorial force prior to tho mobilisation and in tho main body of the Expeditionary Force, wero concerned in an unsitisfaciory administration of the regimental funds. The rumour appears to have been well founded. Tho matter has been investigated officially upon tho authority of the Minister in Charge of the Audit Department, and steps taken to secure the personal attendance in Ne,w Zealand of tho officers concerned. They are well-known infantry officers in Otago, one being a lieutenant-colonel of a certain regiment and the other an adjutant of the same regiment. One of tlie officers is now on his way from Egypt and the other is understood to have been giveu orders to return from England, where he had been dispatched by order of a superior officer.

A Wangamii lady is the proud holder of a record. During the past year she had 377 books from tho Public Library, all being fiction. This was one interesting'fact 'gleaned from tlie balances'heot at the annual meeting of library subscribers ■ held recently. The Mastertou Horticultural and Industrial Society has decided to hold its spring show on February 24. Mr. F. Waugh,of Lower Hutt, is to be asked to judge tho pot plants and cut. flowers, and Miss Cooper (Wellington) tho decorjited tables.