LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SOLDIERS IN TOWN. Sir, —"A Citizen," writing to your paper this morning, complains about the Mldicrs being intoxicated in town on Saturday night. Ho' talks about disgracing tho King's uniform, calling the Mayor to shut the hotels, getting citizens to help tho police. Now, i was about town on Saturday night, and 1 saw several troopers "quite Tmppy," but none obstrepcrotis. I did not grudgo these poor follows their jollifications. They have been hard worked all the week in a "dry area," and then one thousand of them are given "leave" to go to town on Saturday. Is it any wonder that many should make glad; and is it any wonder some should go over the edge? Tho remedy is not to be found in "A Citizen's" suggestions, and it is sheer mockery for- "A Citizen" to talk about disgracing tho King's uniform. Shutting the hotels is all fiddlesticks, and as for helping the police: they don't need it. The fault is in the system the molly-coddle section of the community have forced upon the military authorities. In garrison towns at Home there is nothing of tie "scenes" that "A Citizen" depicts in Wellington. Why? Because the men —the military camps—are supplied with liquor through the wet canteen, . which is under control of the militarv authorities. The soldiers have regular daily supplies of liquor, and excess is practically unknown. The section of the community that clamoured for dry canteenß are responsible for the "excesses" that have been witnessed in Wellington;' and under the circumstances —one day. a week in which to get a "wet"—it is gratifying that the "excesses" should be so few.—l am, etc., . i ANOTHER CITIZEN. Wellington, February 10, 1915.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2382, 11 February 1915, Page 9
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286LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2382, 11 February 1915, Page 9
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