TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 July 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

I.PKR I'IIEHS ABHOCIA.TION.] WJfiLLIN-GTON-LVI'rELTON FEBRI. Chmtchuroh This Day. There has been a'conwdenvble decline in .passenger traffic on 'the WellingtouLytteltou ferry service, and the Union Company has decided to withdraw the Waihine, using tho -Pateena in her stead until prospecte improve. ;XHE TItENTJIAM ENQUIRY Wellington, This Day. The Royal Commission to inquire* into matters concerning Tronthaiu camp resumed its sitting to-day. The tirst witness was L'ieut.-Colonel PoMer, camp commandant, who gave a list of officers associated. with tho men in coutrol of the camp. The number of men in camp'at the time t was removed was 7000. The lowest number at any time was 2000, and tho average since the Third Reinforcements waa -1000. Tho Solicitor-General: Do you coneider the area of the camp was sufficient? Witness:—lt would have "been U' there had been sufficient buildings. Xfio Solicitor-General: With toiita it was not sufficient? Witness: Well wo had some , uuildmgs. Colonel Potter suusc([uently stated that the area would not have been suificioiit had there been tents only but it was sufficient with tents and uuildingu. Tlie Solicitor-General: Do you consioor as a matter of'tnet fliat the camp lias Been overcrowded?

Witness: I don't think it "has been overcrowded for tho fcimo we had it. but it would have'become so if wo Had remained there for any length of time. For temporary purposes and uruler v.ho circumstances, it was sufficient, hut it was not their intention to keep 7000 men tTiere all the time; 1 2000 wei'e to go out in August.