NARRATIVE OF MR. CARRON. 169 



Avg. VMh. — Sunday. Prayers as usual at eleven 

 o'clock. 



A%(,g. 14:th. — Complaint was made to Mr. Ken- 

 nedy of the waste and extravagant use of the flour 

 and sugar by Niblett^ who had the charge of the 

 stores. Mr. Kennedy immediately proceeded to 

 examine the remainder of the stores^ when he found 

 that Niblett had been making false returns of the 

 stores issued weekly. Up to this time Mr. Ken- 

 nedy^ Niblett, and Douglas (who waited on Mr. 

 Kennedy), had messed together, apart from the 

 other ten. Niblett took charge of the ration for 

 the smaller mess, and usually cooked it himself, the 

 ration being taken out weekly from that weighed 

 for the whole part3^ Besides issuing a larger 

 ration to his own mess, Niblett had taken a great 

 deal from the stores for himself. 



On finding* this out, Mr. Kennedy requested me 

 to take charg'e of the stores, and issue them to the 

 cook for the week, and from this date we all messed 

 together. We had at this time about seven hundred 

 lbs. of flour left. Everything was weighed in the 

 presence of the ^vhole party before I took charge, 

 and I alwaj's weighed out every week's ration in 

 the presence of the cook and two other parties. At 

 this camp it was found necessary to reduce our 

 ration to the folloAving scale per weekj fifty lbs. 

 flour, twelve lbs. sugar, two and three-quarters lbs. 

 tea, and the sheep as before — one every second da}-. 

 After the ration A^as cooked, it was divided by the 



