SOLDIERS AND LIQUOR.
iß.v Telegraph.—.Special to "iHar.") JIASTKRTON, this day. Members of the Returned Soldiers Club, at a epeeial meeting last night, discussed the matter of returned soldiero and the liquor question. Lieut.-Colonel I'owlea »aid that no one could accuse him of being a wowser, but the liquor tralh'e and its relation to returned soldiers was so prominently before the public that it was due to members of the Association to express an opinion on tlic tubject. Personally, he did not think it,' was for civilians to say that soldiers should be deprived of their "pots." 11 soldiers were deprived of liquor, then civilians should bo s-imilnrly treated. He thought that the trouble could be considerably mitigated if the. returned soldiers made irp their minds to try and prevent those who had returned suffering from shell shock, and with their nerves shattered, from getting more liquor than was good for them. Lieutenant ilounsell daid he did not agree with soldiers being cut out of their liquor unless the same applied t» civilians. It was eventually decided that the Association take up a non-committal attitude on the question.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 208, 31 August 1918, Page 5
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