TRENTHAM COMMISSION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 65, 16 July 1915, Page 6

TRENTHAM COMMISSION.

TO-DAY S SITTiNC.

Per Pnyss . Association. Wellington, .July 1(5

The Royal Commision .to inquire into matters cbncerning the Trentham Camp resumed the sittings today.

The first witness, was LieutenarttColonel Potter, Gamp Commandant, who gave a list of officers associated with him in control of the'camp, The number of men in camp at the time it was removed was 7,000. The lowest number at any time was 2,000, and the average since the Third Reinforcements was 4,000. Solicitor-General : Do you -consider the area of the camp was sufficient? —Witness: It would have been if there had . been sufficient b buildings. With tents it was not sufficient? — Well, we had some buildings. Colonel Potter subsequently stated that tile area would not have been sufficient had there been only tents, hut it was sufficient with the tents and buildings. Solicitor-General: Do you consider as a mat'ter of fact that the camp has been overcrowded?—l don’t think it has been overcrowded for the time we have had it, but it would have become ,so if we had remained there for any length of time for temporary purposes, and under the * circumstances it was sufficient, but it was their intention to keep 7,0011 men there all the time. Two thousand five hundred* were to go out in Am gust. ’ ' - ' v ' .