TRENTHAM COMMISSION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 74, 27 July 1915, Page 6

TRENTHAM COMMISSION.

PROGRESS OF THE EVIDENCE. Peb Pkess [Association. Wellington, July 27. At the Trenthani commission, Captain Yeates, medical officer, said the men in the isolation camp were so badly guarded that they frequently met others isolated for other reasons. It was really not an isolation ramp. Hutments had been erected on gronnd s which showed -signs of having been old trench latrines. The tents should have been shifted at least once a month to an adjacent ground. Witness was struck off the camp strength on February 27 on the report of the director of Medical Services, who did not hold degrees as high as witness. Captain Yeates did not conceal the fact that ho had sent a grievance to the Solici-tor-General. Witness said he had threatened Colonel Purdy with a libel ( action and. had made charges against that officer. He. had been advised Mint suggestions for improvements would not be well taken. At the sick parade there was a place in which the men might shelter-while waiting to be examined. When epidemics broke out, there should be a further inspection to the sick parade.

i Captain Yeiites in replying to Mr Gray, said that .Major. Holmes had reported on him. that report was unfavourable and untrue. In the report made by Mr Holmes on witness on. his return from Samoa, he wrote favourably, witness added. He gave evidence "not from prejudice but with a genuine desire bo help the men. As a whole,,' the combatants and the staff worked splendidly, doing their best to keep the camp clean.