THE BLUE UNIFORM.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 64, 15 March 1919, Page 12

THE BLUE UNIFORM.

AND GOVERNOR'S PARTY. COLONEL CENSURES SOLDIERS. fPy Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. In connection with the attitude taken up by many of thp soldier patients nt the Christchurch Hospital in refusing to attend in their lilue uniforms the •rarden-partv arranrrpd hv the fiovernor-Kem-ral and Lady Liverpool, the followinsr order has been issued by LieutenantColonel Wylie, officer commanding the men undergoing treatment: —'The officer rnmmanding regrets that certain of the patients of the hospital saw fie on Tuesday, 11 tli inst., to =o far forget themselves as soldiers and men as to behave in a manner which can only be described a< discourteous in thp extreme, and wishes to point out that irrievances, real or imaginary, can never be rectified by behnviour such as they were guilty of. Conduct of this kind not only reflects on them, hut on their comrades, us well as the hospital in which they are, and renders the acceptance of invitations on their behalf in the future difficult if not impossible." , A further order regarding local leave state?: "On and after the 14th inst. the hour at which patients must return to Ihe hospital is altered from 0 p.m. to S p.m. Later leave from this will only be granted on special application and for special reasons."