A MALICIOUS CANARD.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 4, 6 January 1916, Page 3

A MALICIOUS CANARD.

SCANDALOUS REPORTS AB WEYMOUTH CAMP.

PROVED TO BE UNFOUND

LONDON, Januar;

Prior to the arrangement foi | removal of the New Zealanders I the Weymouth camp rumours I freely circulated as to the deplcl | condition of the camp, also till was insanit'ii’y- An Australian I | Association representative thorof investigated the matter, and I ! that the allegations were mali | inventions. The camp is situate I’. rising ground, is 'admirably drs i ventilated and warmed. At the : set the lightly constructed roofs | ed to keep out the rain, and a 'section of the three thousand t who were quartered there siyffei good deal of discomfort until th thcrities remedied it. The s'an requirements are excellent. The

a fine gymnasium, and recre rooms are provided, and the se

icampj some distance 'away, isi served for four hundred men whc

maimed or otherwise inc*.xpaid|tj and for the Australians and (New danders who were awaiting tram heme. The men are cheerful, nob standing that m'any of them i have anxieties as to the future, officers in charge at Weymouth p ed the splendid behaviour of the whose health generally is excelh