DETENTION CAMPS
DISMISSAL OF OVERSEERS. LETTERS TO OPPOSITION PARTY i LEADERS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Seven overseers at the Whetanui and Piaka» detention camps, near Foxton have addressed letters to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Holland, and the leader of the Danomtic Labour Soldier Party Mr Lee concemmg their complaints about the relationship tween the administration of these camps a themselves. The letters state that 11 men have been dismissed from the camp-, and that in the last 11 weeks there have been one dismissal and, on May 3, three resignations, culminating in the complete staff of overseers of both camps resigning, dismissed men had petitioned the Minister of National Service without result, and the signatories to the letters were now placing their case before Mr Holland and Mr Lee in the hope of having straightened out what was in their view a big problem. The seven overseers who signed the letter are Messrs J Raper & Tantrum, E. Toohill, - Murray, F. Ashby, D. Thomas and G. Short.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1943, Page 2
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