AMERICA’S FLEET

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 319, 21 July 1925, Page 5

AMERICA’S FLEET

THE QUESTION OF LIQUOR ADMIRAL TRUSTS HIS MEN TILE LUKE INCIDENT EXPLAINED (Per Press Association V Auckland. July 20. ‘‘Evidently Liu* liquor trade is in a very highly nervous condition when jv is so alarmed by Lite cabled stalemen that I waited on Admiral Coon tx while in Honolulu in the interests of Prohibited!.” said Mr C. M l.uke, of 'Wellington. to-day. on the arrival ol tlm Niagara.

All- Luke cave a very emphatic denial to the suggestion that he had endeavoured to influence, the Admiral in the matter of possible drinking among- the men when the licet is i n New Zealand waters. ‘ I desire to sav.” stated Mr Luke, Jdlmt 1 with a delegation from the Y.M.C.A. waited on the Admiral ai Honolulu in connect ion with the entertainment of the men when they arrived in New Zealand and. incidentally only, was reference made to' the men of the tleet. who had landed at Honolulu in hatches of from 8040 tc 1.0,000 daily. I remarked upon tin sobriety of the men as I had not seen one drunken man ashore. I asked the Admiral if he had any fern ;u to the consequences when tin-

men arrived in ’wet’ countries, am he answered he had not. He said | H . relied on Ids men when visiting woi countries to maintain the same high conduct Hint, had marked them in ad instances.”.

MASTER-TON' PREPARATIONS

Mustn't on, July 20

\ public meeting was held toniuht to arrange for the reception ol American sailors. 050 of whom are spending the day here on August 13. Live days later 50 officers "'ill spend a day and night as guests ol ilk> citizens.

At a subsequent executive meeting the matter of supplying liquor at the public luncheon was dismissed. Opinion was divided an the matter but resolution that no liquor he provided either sailors or officers at auv public function was carried without dissent.