WET CANTEEN QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2413, 19 March 1915, Page 3

WET CANTEEN QUESTION

♦—: Following the publication of a Press. Association message from Auckland, the executive of the Moderate League has addressed tbo following letter to the Hon., Jas. Allen, Minister of Defence: —"I have the honour to draw your attention to the attached newspaper cutting of a Press Association message from Auckland re a wet canteen at Trentham, in which you are reported to have stated to a Women's C.T.U. deputation that you had already given an assurance that no wet canteen would be established. My executive instruct me to respectfully ask you whether the Press Association message is correct, and if so when and to whom the assurance above referred to was given, as, nn the occasion of the Moderate League's recent deputation to you on this matter, you stated in your reply that you had an open mind on the question, and under certain possible contingencies would have to consider ways of getting round the law and establishing a wet canteen. As this, so far as we are aware, was your last public pronouncement on the subject, a reply to the above will greatly oblige."