MILITARY CANTEENS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14699, 6 December 1909, Page 6

MILITARY CANTEENS.

'A SOURCE OF TEMPTATION.

{Per Usiteo Press Association.)

WELLINGTON. December 5. The executive of the New Zealand Alliance, while not now entering into the discussion of the general subject of compulsory military training, resolved at a ! special meeting yesterday:—" That inas-'. much as tho canteen in military camps ' serves no useful purpose, but is a source of dangerous temptation to inanv. and has frequently led to scenes of regrettable ex- . cess and disorder, the executive of the, • alliance enters its emphatic protest , against the ir elusion of canteens for the ' sale of intoxicating liquors in the Military Bill which is to conic before Parliament during the coming week." It believes that when parent* realise the danger ty which their sons will bo exposed lluou-'r the canteen many will rise in protest aul. decline the military proposals altogctlw \ ; Hither than risk the ruin of their soiil-,' There are fathers who quite approve of tin '■ principles of Volunteering, as such, tot ■; their eons, who will have good reason U | oppose tho whole system if their boys are to be exposed to drinking customs which destroy more lives than a foreign foe has ever destroved.

In a jtumber-of local churches yesterday, at the request of the New Zealand Alliance, tha congregations entered a protest against the principles of military canteens. The Centra) Mission gathering and others decided to send a telegram to the Primo Minister and 'Mr J. F. Arnold, M.P., on the same lines as the alliance resolution.