FEDERAL DEFENCE BILL
PL"EA FOR THE CANTEEN.
STRONG ARGUMENT.
Press Association-By Tefegraph-Copyiight.
MELBOURNE, December 7. Colonel Foxton, discussing the Defence Bill, said that ho had had charge of a camp in Queensland that was run on temperance lines. There was no canteen the first night, and many of the men walked four mile, alM j got hx r. The gccond mfflit was worte. Ho had never seen so miieh drnnkennres in camp. To save Hie situation he got in some barrels of *>«■>■, and from that out drunkenness ceawd.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14701, 8 December 1909, Page 5
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