PAIR TO CLOUDY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 40, 10 November 1917, Page 6

PAIR TO CLOUDY

Yesterday was another -fine day. Present indications are for variable winds, •with' moderate northerns predominating, and changing to ■■ freshening northerlies 'shortly. Fair to cloudy-weather is probable generally, but unsettled at times in the "northern and southernmost districts.

"I cabled through a friend to Sir Joseph Ward to get a pair with Dowme Stewart about eix o'clock closing, enrs Lieutenant T. E. Y. Seddon, member for-Westland, -in a letter to a fnand on the West Coast. "It seems to wo at this distance (hat toil are frißhtfiiliy overdoing thine* in oy,r dear little Dominion. Let them close hotels where soldiers make fools of themselves at hi o'clock, but let us on.the Coast alone. It will mean a lot for our_ people. 1 cannot see how the closine of the hotels is going to affect the soldiers. A few fsed to get drunk and disturb ns m LhutsltTrentham.butrhedmnrbances were generally mild, and rather nimusini? than anything else It happene<l. rarely. Has it taken until the Thirty-, third Keinforcemcnt to find > ;i,t the pernicious influence of after six o clock drinking on the soldiers?