REPUDIATING SLANDERS.
ALLEGED GAMBLING AND DRINKING BY TROOPERS. By Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Sydney, April 28. The day tho Norfolk arrived an evoning papor published a somewhat sonsational statement regarding alleged gambling and drinking on the transport. Enquiries made at tho time showed that there was little, if any, ground for tho statement.
To-day tho same paper published a letter from Sergt.-Major Pleasants, denying that there was any gambling aboard, or, at any rate, only a littlo of a harmloss description, meant to pass away tho idlo hours of the tedious voyage. Ho adds : “ I have been on several troopships carrying troops to and from South Africa, and can say that the men aboard tho Norfolk were exceptionally well behaved. There was less gambling amongst them than in any other contingent that left Now Zealand.” A second letter from tho Rev. A. Luxford, chaplain, states that the charges are not only unfair, but untrue. Ho was pleased with the sobriety of the men, the majority of whom are teotollers. Gambling was not prevalent, or the ordor prohibiting it was, with very few exceptions, willingly obeyed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 402, 29 April 1902, Page 2
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185REPUDIATING SLANDERS. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 402, 29 April 1902, Page 2
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