LIQUOR ON TROOP TRAINS
LAW TO BE STRICTLY ENFORCED.
WELLINGTON, This Day. Numerous complaints, are being received regarding intoxicating liquor on , troop trains, especially with -regard to returning troops. Consequently, the Defence Department has specially - directed the attention of its officrirto-the War Regulations under which was made an offence to bring intoxicaJt&g liquor on to a troop train, and* fo’ impress upon them the 1 necessity for , the enforcement, of these regulations. Clause 14 of the War Regulations (of 9 ISth November, 1915, hot only it an offence to have intoxicating on a troop train, < but also to guppty liquor to any person being carried troop train. The Crown ifcaw Office Elvises that the expression, “being earned on a troop train" must, read as applicable not only to those men, who during the course of their journey, may be at any time temporally 08 the train. The' term “troop, train” dhr fined in the regulations includes nob only a tram wholly reserved for purposes of the. Defence Forces, but also a carrage on an ordinary train wholly or chiefly used by those Forces. The greatest, efforts are to be made to secure convictions against civilians who supply liquor to troops'on troop trains.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1919, Page 4
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202LIQUOR ON TROOP TRAINS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1919, Page 4
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