MILITARY CAMPS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12942, 6 December 1909, Page 2

MILITARY CAMPS.

THE CANTEEN QUESTION.

(Per United Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, December 6

The executive of the New Zealand Aliianee, while not now entering into the iiscussion of the general bubject ol compulsory military training, resolved at a ->pewal meeting yesterday, "That inasmuch ad the canteen in military campt> serves no useful purpose, but is a source of daugerous temptation to many, and has frequently led to scenes of regrettable excess and disorder, the executive of the Alliance enters ife emphatic protect against the inclusion of canteens lor the sale of intoxicating liquor in the Military Bill which is to come before Parliament during the coining week. It believes that when parents realise the danger to which their -ons will be exposed through the canteen, many will rise in protect and decline the military proposals altogether rather than i-.k the ruin of their bons. There are fathers who quite approve of the principles of Volunteering as euch for their nins, who will have good reason to oppose the whole system it their boy.s are to be exposed to drinking customs, which destroy more lives than a foreign toe ha.lVlt deotroyed."