FOR KING AND EMPIRE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 763, 21 July 1916, Page 8

FOR KING AND EMPIRE.

KILLED IN ACTION. PRIVATE A. A. BLUNT. Private Alfred Armstrong Blunt, killed in action, was the son of Mrs

E. J. Blunt, 528 Hereford Street. He was 34 years of age.

DIED OF WOUNDS.

LANCE-CORPORAL G. W KERRIDGE.

Lance-Corporal G. W. Kcrridge, who is reported died of wounds,

was the son of Mrs Kerridge, of 30 Vague Road, Papanui. <g" ' main open at the present time. It was better that the soldiers should go into the hotels than that they should be shut out, and go into the back streets and slums. They must not deny the soldiers who were going to light for the country what little liberty they were able to enjoy. It would be a curtailment of their liberties to close tbe hotels early. There had been absolutely no evidence of inefficiency, either from the military or industrial viewpoint. The evidence was all the other way. Why select tbe hotels for the purposes of economy? Why attack one portion of the business community? There were the theatres, racecourses, picture shows, etc. To be logical, they must interfere with all, and they dare not do that. Mr Isill had declared that the i people were demanding this change. | The voice of the people was not always reliable, though it was to be treated with the greatest respect. ll' I the question of compulsory military training had been put to the people of England two years before the war they would have turned it down, and when the war came England found herself without an army.

The second reading was agreed to, and Ihe Bill was sel down for the Committee stage on Ihe next silting day.