MILITARY SCANDAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 138, 21 June 1901, Page 2

MILITARY SCANDAL.

GOVEBNMENT HOUSE PABADED WITH SAMPLES OF FOOD ON A POLE. “ THE FOUB CUES.” [By Telegraph—Press Association]. Wellington, last bight. The trouble oyer the badly-cooked rations, and the prevailing discomfort in the camp of Yolunteersjat Newtown, led to a scene on the parade-ground to-day, when Colonel Pole-Penton. visited the camp, and inveighed against the action of certain men who had supplied newspaper men with particulars of their grievances, and against certain Yolunteers 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 he said that a searching enquiry would be held into the matter. The real source of the trouble seems to be the departure frorq tho ojd course of leaving the cuisine arrangements in the hands of the quartermasters of the respective batallions. There have been unbounded. complaints,, and the contractor, rightly or wrongly, is blamed for the manner in which be has discharged tho duties he had undertaken. Lieut.-Colonel Somerville, who is in charge of the encampment, was instructed by the Commandant to have the men who had taken a leading part in tho uproar identified, but it is understood that in this he hasrijacn unsuccessful. An enquiry is to be held, into the whole proceedings.