TRENTHAM CAMP.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1915, Page 2

TRENTHAM CAMP.

YESTERDAY'S ION'IIJKNC l-:. By Telegraph.—Picas Association. Wellington, Yesterday. At the Trentham Camp Commission, Captain Yeates, medical ollieer, said the men in tlie isolation camp were so badly guarded that they frequently met others, isolated for other reasons. It xvas really not ail isolation camp, llutmenis had.been elected on ground which showed signs of having been old trench latrines. The tents should have been shii'ted at least once a month to adjacent ground. Witness was v struck off the camp strength on February 27 011 the report of the Director of Medical Services, who did not Jiold degrees as high as witness. Yeates did not conceal the fact that he had a grievance. To the Solicitor-General, witness said lie had threatened Colonel Purely with a libel action and,made charges against that ollieer. He had been advised thu.t suggestions for improvements would not be well taken. At sick parade thee was a place in which men might shelter while waiting to be examined. When epidemics broke out there should bo a further inspection than siclc parade. Captain Yeates, replying to Mr. Gray, said that Major Holmes had reported or him. That report was unfavorable and untrue. In the report made by Major Holmes on witness' return from Samoa he wrote favorably. Witness added that he gave evidence not from prejudice, but with a genuine desire to help the men. The whole combatant stall' worked splendidly, doing their best to keep the camp clean. *

William Charles Pollard, brother of Private Pollard (Christchureh), who diet at Herhanipore Hospital, read letters from his brother saying they were sleeping over Sfl men in a hut, and the food was not cooked well. Pollard said notification of serious illness was received 011 ■lime 20 Captain Harrison said that Private Pollard's condition was too critical to allow of removal to a private nursing home, and lie objected to civilian interference, which would upset the whole organisation.