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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 144, 18 June 1915, Page 2

The Auckland <listri,-t <-nnn.il of t'.io United Federation of Labour carried a resolution at its meeting (lie other liijrht. commpiiting nn the |>otJition of the (JoverumiTit with rcjiaiM to wound«l soldier?. 'Hie resolution staitvl: " Tiiat tihis C-ouiK'il. in view of the fart that numbers of wounded unldie.rs, tlie majority of whom are worker*, arc already on their way I>aek to the Dominion, and that the situation requires adequate preparation for their reception in the vario-ua hospitals at the disposal of the Covernment, Tcsrets that, bo far. there lias been no indication thiM the (loyernment is getling ready to roreive Mirrii." "I don't linow if Uiose boot simp proprietors will ever take warning from these thefts," d-eeliirod Mr. F. V. Frazer. S.M., to-day when a man came before him and admitte<l having stolen a pair of boots from the frunt of a shop yesterday. llig Worship staled that there was at least one ench ease » week before the Court, and the hahit of putting <*oo<ls out nn the street put a strong temptation in the way <if men who wore hard up. and especially if they ha-d " n few drinks aboard." which wornld make them iniliiH'd to be irrefipons.iblc. He did no'/ hive much sjitipathy wibh the proprietor who lost boots in such cirenmstancee, and he could understand the peculiar temptation boots outside iv shop window, within easy reach, were to ijoije people at the present time of high prion.