INTOXICATED SOLDIERS
Comment by magistrate MILITARY CONTROL CRITICISED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 24. After he had dealt with two Maori soldiers and a pakeha soldier who were charged with fighting, and a pakeha sergeant who admitted assaulting a police constable, Mr F H Levien, S.M., commenting on the numbers of soldiers who wandered about, many of them under the influence of liquor, said it was the duty of the military police to remove such men from the streets. In future, Mr Levien said, soldiers in uniform who misbehaved themselves would be dealt with more severely. "It appears that the civil police round up these -n and that military officers later come to the court and speak on behalf of soldier offenders." the magistrate said. "Prevention should be the order of the day. The military police should be placed in a position to deal with men in uniform who are found drunk about the town. It is not an uncommon thing to see soldiers wandering about the streets under the influence of liquor. Why military police are not on duty to prevent such conduct I do not know. "During the last war," the magistrate added, "the military police did a good job. In future, fines will not be imposed, except in special circumstances. In my opinion, there should be - some method of preventing excessive drinking by soldiers and. secondly, a stronger force of military police should be on duty in the city to remove from the streets those soldiers who do not behave themselves. I think that that would have some effect on drunkenness, which has become so rife with certain classes of the forces."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24773, 25 November 1941, Page 5
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