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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 8

A number of men' in. uniform have appeared in the Auckland Police Court from time to time charged with drunkenness, says the "Herald." The Magistrate, Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., has invariably been lenient with them. Expressing his opinion of the custom of "treating" soldiers in uniform, Mr. Frazer stated on Thursday that his experience' had been that people, actuated by a spirit of generosity and goodwill, "treated" soldiers without realising the seriousness of their action. Magistrates wero not- inclined to deal severely with men who had done their duty to their country. If friends of returned soldiers Tealised that men just released from rigid military discipline were more easily tempted to take too much liquor than ordinary men, they would probably be more guarded. The fault of the public, he said, was dug rather to thoughtlessness than to anything else. Mr. Fraaer appealed to the public to be more considerate when in tlio company of returned or other soldiers, and to remember how intemperance brought discredit npon the King's uniform.

Tho Fiji correspondent of tihe Sydney "Daily Telegraph," writing from Suva on January i, says"There has been some talk among peoplo who are not well acquainted with Fiji about unrest in these islands. Tho exainplo of the two sons of one of the leading- chiefs, Ratu Joni Mandraiwiwi, can he taken as indicative of the true feeling of tho natives. One of them, who was at Cambridge, llgtu Sakuia, enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, ami l was woundedi in tho trenches. The other, Ratu Oharli, was a student at Wesley College, Melbourne. He was in the winning boat crew at Henley on Yarra, but there was no place for him in the ranks of the Australian army. He was debarred by his colour, and* had to go to New Zealand to enlist, where ho joined the Maori Reinforcements, and is now uiutergniiis! tvamiftp- prior K> jsgi»&J<L -to 6