WHEN BEER WAS BINNED

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6995, 8 December 1909, Page 7

WHEN BEER WAS BINNED

THE CAMP "WAS MORE DRUNKENTHAN EVER. Br Teligraph—Press Association—ConyritM. MELBOURNE, December T. Colonel Tox-ton, C.M.G., V.D., in discussing tho Defence Bill, said ho had dharge of a camp in Queensland which was run on. temporanco lines. There was no canteen, and on tho firstf night many of the men walked four miles to get beer- Tho second night was worse. He had never seen iio much drunkenness in a camp, and to save tho situation ho got some barrels of beer. From that out til© drunkenness ceased. AGAINST CANTEENS. heess associatios. "WANGANUI, December 7. The Council of Churches passed the following resolution:—"That this meeting of the Wanganui Council of Churches, having considered the telegram from the Kight Hon. the Premier in reply to resolutions passed in the local churches relative to canteens foi the supply of intoxiacting liquors in military' gatherings, pledges itself t<i oppose in exerw constitutional mannei compulsory military training if liquor u to be supplied or sold in the encampments." DCNEDIX, December 7. The Dune-din Presbytery, on tho motion of the Ilov. Mr Scorgie, unanimously entered an emphatic protest against tho Government's proposal _to open canteens in connection with military camps for the compulsory training of the youth of the Dominion. Taieri pastors present TPsolved to telegraph to the Hon. T. Mackenzie, .urging him to oppose the opening of canteens.