SOLDIER PATIENTS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16214, 17 May 1918, Page 6

SOLDIER PATIENTS.

THE LTQUOE QUESTION. (SPECIAL TO "TBK r*ESS.") d j| WELLINGTON, May 10For the firßt time the blue hojpityl uniform of the British Army was to soon in the streets of Wellington to* day, being worn by some of the iflcn disembarked from the hospital . ship,, now in port. In England there is * regulation providing that men weanOs this uniform, which signifies that Wj, are patients undergoing treatment, must on no account be supplied WW intoxicating liquor. Any person «b » so much as offers to supply JiQtfWJi; etich men is liable to a fine of tiw. There is no such regulation m country, and men wearing this, uniioiw went into hotels freely to-day, . were served with liquor just as ordinary customers. Some men: w to be seen in the streets palpao though not seriously, under the inn once of liquor. , . ~«» The Minister of Defence states tfi" suggestions are being prepared for making of regulations similar to tn in operation in England and in a tralia regarding the supply of uqu to men wearing this nniforra. The Minister stated to-dav that rt» the shin arrived in Auckland the no , in the city were declared oyt of bouD for men off the ship. Jh's dona bv the officer commanding .the ow-- , trict. In Wellington, said tho Mm - ister, there did not seein to be A., same Btrong reasons for declaring - hotels out of bounds, as comjiaratireff few of the men were to come here.