COOKING ARRANGEMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 June 1901, Page 4

COOKING ARRANGEMENTS.

Colonel Penton uses Strong Language.

(per press association.)

Wellington, June 20,

The trouble over badly-cooked rations and the prevailing discomfort in camp of the Volunteers at Newtown, led to a scene on the parade ground to-day. Colonel Ponton visited the camp and inveighed against the action of certain men who had supplied newspaper men with particulars of theirfgriovances, and against certain Volunteers who had paraded in

the vicinity of Government 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 searching enquiry would be held into the matter. The real source of tho trouble seems to be tho dov . uf . fr-jiu he o;d course of leaving the cuisine arrangements .n the hands of the quarter-masters of the respective battalions. There have been unbounded complaints, and the contractor, rightly or wrongly, is blamed for the manner in which ho has discharged the duties he had undertaken, Litut-Coloncl Sommcrvilic, who is in charge of the encampment was instructed by the Cfmmandaut to have tho men identified who had taken a leading part in the uproar, but it is understood that this has been unsuccessful. An inquiry is to be held into tho whole proceedings.