SOLDIERS AND DRINK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16872, 10 June 1918, Page 4

SOLDIERS AND DRINK

RESTRICTING REGULATIONS.

PATIENTS NOT TO BE SERVED.

BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

WELLINGTON. Sunday. A HEG-n.ATiov forbidding the supply of liquor to soldiers undergoing medical or curative treatment was gazetted yesterday. The order provides that, except as provided, no person shall sell or supply any intoxicating liquor (a) to any member of the Expeditionary Force —after the date when he Jias first beer, called into camp — he is undergoing medical or curative treatment as a patient or outpatient of any hospital or other institution, whether the sale or supply takes place within the hospital or institution, or elsewhere ; (b) to any person who has been discharged from an Expeditionary Force and is undergoing medical or curative treatment. The order does not apply to the supply of intoxicating liquor to any person by order of the doctor in charge of a soldier or ex-soldier patient.

It will be a good defence in any proceedings for a breach oi these regulations if the defendant proves that be did not know, and had no reasonable ground for suspecting, that the person to whom lie supplied intoxicating liquor was a soldier or ex-soldier undergoing medical treatment.

NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE.

PROHIBITION AND CANTEENS. [BY TELEGRAPH. rBESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Saturday. The executive of the National Council of 1 the New Zealand Alliance resolved that a : petition be presented to Parliament next ' session praying for legislation to enable a. : poll to be taken this year on the basis of the National Efficiency Board's proposal f or the complete and immediate prohibition of the liquor traffic on a simple majority vote. The resolution also stated that the executive views with grave concern information just received that wet canteens were provided upon several transports which recently brought returned soldiers to the Dominion, and considers such action a most serious violation of the declared policy of the Dominion, and calls upon the Government to take steps to put an immediate stop to this practice.