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41. Was your temperature taken morning and evening in the kiosk? —Yes, sir. 42. What was your highest temperature?— About 102, in the jockeys' quarters. There were three beds in a room only 10 ft. by 10 ft. 43. Henderson said there were a great many sick in hut No. 44?— Yes, sir. 44. Nearly all? —There might have been two or three men who did not have very bad colds, but that was all. 45. What do you think of the huts as to draught and as to the cold? —They are no good at all—that is my opinion. 46. Why? —There is always a draught in them for one thing, and they are never warm: you never get them warm. 47. They are really uncomfortable? —Yes, sir. 48. Even after you got the stretchers? —We never had stretchers. We had straw palliasses on the floor. 49. Was that all right?—lt was fairly comfortable, but I prefer the tent myself. 50. Is there any other complaint you would like to bring forward? —That complaint about the boots. 51. You did not get your boots at all? —Yes, I got them about three days before we left Trentham. 52. And you were there about seven weeks?— Yes, sir. 53. Was yours an ordinary size? —Yes. 54. There would be no trouble in fitting you? —No, not at all. There is also a complaint that the urine-tins were always put between the hutments at night, and they always smelt, even when they wore empty. 55. The Chairman!] Would it be the disinfectant which smelt? —No, sir. 56. What would you suggest?—l suggest that the men should go to the urinals. 57. But the men would not go over there? —Yes, they would. Even to go out to the tins you had to put your boots on. 58. But you were nearer in your hut to the urinals than many of the men were? —It is only a matter of a walk for a minute and a half. 59. Ido not think, knowing human nature as I do, that they would go even that far. That is why 7 you were provided with the tins? —Well, that is what all the men near us suggested. They were going to ask. that that should be done. "60. What do you have up at Rangiotu?—l have been there only two or three days. 1 have been in Palmerston North Hospital. 61. Were you sick again?— Yes. 62. Are you all right now?— Yes; I had a day's drill yesterday, and got through all right. The treatment in the Palmerston North Hospital was first class. 63. How many days were you there? —Twenty days altogether. 64. Mr. Skerrett.] Who was it told y 7 ou when you went to the kiosk that there was no room? —The sergeant-major in charge. 65. Sergeant Magnus Badger?—l could not say. 66. You did not go and report to any one that you were not allowed to go into the kiosk?— 1 reported it to the regimental doctor the next morning. 67. Who was the doctor? —Dr. Bogle. . ;68. Where is he now?—At Rangiotu Camp. .. 69. Mr. Gray.] We were told by Private Henderson that you went up to the hospital every day for five days? —No, not to the hospital, but only to the doctor. 70. You were not sent back to the hospital for five days?—No, only once. 71. It is not correct that you were not able to walk and had to be carried? —No; but I was five days when I could not get down to the canteen to get food for myself. Frances Mabel Warren sworn and examined. (No. 92.) 1. The Chairman.] You are a nurse, and you were nursing at the Wellington Hospital last June and July?— Yes. 2. Mr. Skerrett.] Do you remember a patient named Stanley Colley being admitted to the hospital from Berhampore?—Yes. 3. Was ho placed in your charge?— Yes. 4. Did you receive him on arrival? —Yes. 5. Do you remember how the patient was attired upon his arrival? —I cannot remember what he had on. 6. His father says you told him when he called at the hospital that his son arrived from the Berhampore Hospital clad only in his pyjamas and overcoat. Can you recollect what he was clothed in?—No, I cannot. I think be had pyjamas and an overcoat on. I could not say he had anything else on ; it is so long ago. 7. The Chairman.] How was he brought to the hospital—in the ambulance? —Yes. 8. Would that have any covering in it in the shape of blankets or anything like that?—l did not see the ambulance. 9. What time was it, that he came to the hospital?—lt was in the evening, about 9 o'clock. 10. The nurse at Berhampore says he was sent away from there between 6 and 7 o'clock : at what time did you go on duty?—B o'clock at night. 11. Had you gone on duty at 8 o'clock that night?— Yes. 12. So it must have been after 8 o'clock when he came?— Yes, it was. 13. You think it was about 9 o'clock when Colley arrived? —Yes.