HARMFUL ACTIONS.
OVER-INDULGENT ATTITUDE.
MILITARY AUTHORITIES’ PLEA. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. An appeal against the adoption of an over-indulgent attitude toward soldiers, particularly in supplying them with liquor, has been issued by the military authorities. It is pointed out that the movements of troops by rail are being considerably hampered by the wellmeaning but harmful actions of the public, especially in giving them liquor before entrainment and in* endeavouring to pass liquor to them on the trains Tiiis practice is most pronounced and most difficult to deal with, when the men are proceeding to camp for the first time. Many of them have had nb military experience and do not realise the trouble and danger they are causing, nor the regulations they are infringing by taking or accepting liquor on trains.
The lack of restraint by the public on railway platforms when troops are going away is another cause of difficulty and danger. In one case recently a temporary barricade which had been put in position to safeguard the entrainment of troops was swept away by well-meaning but over-indulgent friends, and the troops were so crowded that orderly entrainment was impossible and an accident was narrowly averted.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 79, 13 January 1940, Page 6
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