SOLDIERS' MOVEMENTS AND LETTERS.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2731, 28 March 1916, Page 7

SOLDIERS' MOVEMENTS AND LETTERS.

; Sir,—Your paper seems the means of i ventilating things well, so I may get ' some satisfaction by writing .to you. 1 There is evidently ' some bad management some'whero, and perhaps there is cause for all the complaints one hears about. l In October one of the men who returned as one of the cot-eases was landed and sent to Dunecjin Hospital for two months, they told me at the Records Office. I knew he was. returning; and wrote to him, and sent . a paper as well, thinking he would recoive it on his arrival, as it was adi' dressed care s.s. Willoohra. . Much to I my disgust, some time back it was rej turned to mo through tho Dead Letter Office. In.the meantimo I have sent ' things and written to him also. Father ' saw him in hospital.' About three weeks ago I -wrote to him before leav-. :'■ ing home, and yesterday again, to my '•■■ disgust, my letter, and one before, were returned to me, also calendar and stamps, in an envelope addressed to me, and with an Auckland stamp'. I knew he was too ill to write, as the . hospital authorities had answered my ''>. letter to them in Dunedin. -I also

knew the men there were to be sent to Rotorua, according to the paper. But how is it my letter had been opened, and returned from Auckland? And why are the mails not forwarded to the-men? Also, why aro people not notified as to the men's whereabouts? Surely the' Records Office or the hospital authorities are to blamo._ No wonder the men feel they are being neglected after, giving their lives, for their country and fellow-men. One man who was in Dunedin Hospital at the same time, I know for a fact, not a soul went near him, and he had returned wounded. We have taken your paper since it first started, and it has always been fair to*both sides, so I hope you will be able to inquire- into this'for mo. —I am, ete:, INQUIRER. [We have brought the complaints made by our correspondent under the notice of the Records Office, and also under.-the notice of the Postal authorities. They cannot at present offer any explanation for the letters miscarrying, as stated; but if the name of the person to wliom the letters were addressed is supplied, it will enable them to institute inquiries which may throw light on the matter.]