TRANSPORT ARRIVALS.
I QUESTION OF HOTEL OPENING. 5 THE RECENT EXPERIMENT, [Psb Pbes3 Association.] ; ;; WELLINGTON, June 11. In reply to a question put to hirn to-day ,by a. reporter, the Minister of Defence said that he had received a report upon' the experiment made recently in allowing hotels to remain open when a troopship arrived. The report waa not very definite. In some places the result was said to be good, while - 'in others it was bad:. He had decided to leave things as they were for the present. One point which required to be made clear was with respect to the regulations forbidding the supply of liquor to soldiers travelling on troop trains, and the regulations applied also to soldiers who alighted from a troop train at a railway station. If they got off a train emd went across to an hotel they canliot be served with honor, as they are gtill travelling on a troop train.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18121, 12 June 1919, Page 5
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158TRANSPORT ARRIVALS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18121, 12 June 1919, Page 5
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