TRENTHAM CAMP.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1915, Page 5

TRENTHAM CAMP.

ADMISSION iiAJUIED. ISOLATION' TIIK PENALTY. M'OIfK.MKN (SLU> AWAY. Jiy Cable—l'reas Association—Copyright. Wellington, Last Night. "A Miint intimution Uiat X could not go on thv ground, unless i was prepared 10 be isolated for a month, met me when i went out to Trentham camp on an important business matter to-day." " J lie i-peaker was a'Wellington business man, a member of a well-known city' Unn, which Juih a contract in connoc* tion with the eanij) hospital, and he was telling a reporter of a sinister experience he had just come through. He went to 'irentham to inspect work bent;; done liv his men, who have been living out there while engaged on the contract. \\ lien he approached the cam]), he found his way, harred by a ■' guard, who conveyed to him the intimation already ijuotcd. 11 is business pressed, for he had to see his workmen, hut there was 110 entry, siu'e on the one condition. With some difficulty, lie got a message through to one of his employees. His business transacted, lie turned to go away, hut not alone. In the meantime, word laid gune round that the workmen engaged at the camp were all to be isolated, and he found that his employees were, determined to stay there no longer; but it was one thing to say tliey would leave and quite another to get away. They were told they must stay where they where, and this they refused to do. If they could not pass out in a body, they would: leave singly, so one by one the ten men in this particular firm's employ slipped out of the camp, which wag an easy enough thing to do, and they joined their employer and came batik to town with him by train. "In consequence of this, - ' explained the informant, "work on the hospital to-day Is now nt a standstill. I was informed that all the carpenters at tho camp were also going to get away,as soon as they could. It was impossible to find out why the isolation order was issued, but I am given to understand that some exceptionally contagious disease had broken out." A similar story was related by another city business man, who went out to the camp, but was denied admission. He returned to town accompanied by the man he had working there.