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was pretty high then—lo2 point something. I gave him my bed and blankets and he went to sleep almost immediately. About half an hour afterwards an orderly came and woke him up and took him away, I think, into the trainers' quarters. 33. Walked him in ? —Yes. He disappeared, and he told me next time I saw him that they took him into the trainers' quarters. 34. Dr. Martin.] Was his temperature 102 when he got intc your bed ? —Yes, 102 point something. 35. You know that ?—Ho told me that the orderly told him his temperature was 1024 in the morning. 36. You say he had to march from the tent to the trainers' quarters . —I do not know about marching. I think he went in a motor-car, but he had to walk to the loose-box where I was. I left for Kai-warra that morning. He stayed the night, of the 18th in the trainers' quarters, a,nd the next morning he was brought to Kaiwarra in a motor-car with celluloid windows that were broken open and with holes all through them. When he came into Kaiwarra he was pretty bad. He told me he was very cold and shivering coming down. His temperature was higher that day than the day before. He said it was very cold coming down, and that the wind was howling through, the car. It was a showery day he came to Kaiwarra. He had to climb the stairs and then he laid down, and I gave him two of my blankets. Just about three hours afterwards they came round and told him lie had to go to Wellington, and he was taken to the Wellington Hospital. 37. Mr. Ferguson.] Do you know how he went ? —I do not know whether it was in the hospital ambulance or in an ordinary taxicah. After he got to the hospital he was treated as well as anybody could be wished to be treated. He was in the measles ward at the hospital for about a week. He began to get worse, so they shifted him into a ward higher up with the worst, cases, and he died there on the 7th July. 38. Dr. Martin.] What was the cause of death ? —Pneumonia following on measles. 39. Mr. Ferguson.] What was your brother's christian name ?—Charles Joseph Going. 40. The Chairman.] Have you any further matter to mention . —No, I think that is all. I could give you the names of some of the men with me when the tent blew down and those who were well enough to get out and fix it up. They were Trooper Glass, A Squadron, Sixth Reinforcements, Tauherenikau ; Trooper W. T. Watts, A Squadron ; Trooper A. Summer, A Squadron ; Private (now Corporal) (been. N.M.A.C. ; Private Friedrich, 6th Infantry cookhouse ; Trumpeter Simpson, Sixth Reinforcements ; and Private Gillespie, A Company, Sixth Reinforcements. 41. They were all moie or less measles patients . —Yes, they were all measles patients. 42. Mr. Gray.] How long had the other inmates been in that tent that blew down ? —Some of them came, in the day I went, and some a few days before, and I think two or three came afterwards. 43. Were there any of them convalescent, ?—Most of us were convalescent then. They said we were convalescent, We still had spots, but we were getting up. They shifted us from the worst cases. I spent the first three days in the marquee among what they called the worst oases. 44. When you went to the loose-box there was a great rush, was there not ? —Yes. 45. And not enough orderlies to cope with the work ?—No. The same two orderlies would go round with two dishes of bread and butter, and after going round all the loose-boxes they would, have to go back for the beef-tea or oidinary tea, whatever it was. 46. They were overworked ?—Yes. 47. I think you said the men who went into the hutments thought it was a big improvement ?— Yes, most of us did, and I myself now think it is better than the tent. 48. Are you more comfortable . —Yes, we had tables to sit down to, and more room than in the tents. 49. The Chairman.] Did you suffer inconvenience from colds there?—lt is colder in the hut, I believe, than in the tent—the iron seems to make it colder. 50. Mr. Gray.] Do you recollect seeing Colonel Purdy at the marquee that was blown down ?— On the Sunday morning Dr. Valintine and several others came, round, and when they saw how things were they had us shifted. 51. That is the day the racecourse was commandeered ?—Yes. Lawrence Going further examined. 52. The Chairman.] You wish to add something, I understand ?—Yes, in regard to the man sent with me. He is away now. 53. Who is that ? —I think his name was Private Gillespie. He was in the marquee on the racecourse, and then went to Kaiwarra at the same time as myself. When he was in Kaiwarra he was pretty ill—he was amongst the worst cases. One day the orderlies were late in coming round, and he was hungry and called out for something to eat. The orderly who was supposed to be doing this work told him that if he was well enough to call out for his food he should get up and go and get it at the table where the others were. He wanted something to eat, so he got up and went to the table, and was not there long before he fell. He could not stand up. The next thing he knew was that he was in the Wellington Hospital. That is all I know about it. 54. What became of him after that ? —The last I saw of him was on the 7th July. He was just out of the hospital for the first time—in front of the hospital-door. 55. Where is he now ? —I think he is away on leave. He was getting better then. 56. Was it Sergeant Yallop who was in charge off Kaiwarra ? —I do not know the sergeant's name. It would be about the 23rd June he was at Kaiwarra,