SOLDIERS AND LIQUOR
WARNING TO LICENSEES Masterton, This Day At a meeting of the Wairarapa Licensing Committee the Magistrate Mr Lawry, referred to tlie proximity of hotels in many instances to military camps. The military authorities had purposely restricted leave from camps until after the 6 o'clock closing of bar> There was much comment regarding men getting liquor after hours and also on liquor being .supplied to members of the forces under 21 years. Mr Lawry issued a warning to licensees that any infringement of the law that came before him would be severely dealt with. “We have a dangerous enemy at our doors,” said Mr Lawry. “and it is essential that soldiers should be 100 per cent, efficient. ’—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 12 June 1942, Page 4
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120SOLDIERS AND LIQUOR Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 12 June 1942, Page 4
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