EXIT "NO TREATING"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 289, 2 September 1919, Page 5

EXIT "NO TREATING"

An order was issued by the If" 1 ' 1 ?" Central Control Board (Liqxior Jr nlh £) rovoking the edict prohibiting reating all the areas to which the liquor control regulations of 1915 have been npplied. In an accompanying statement lcjt. «- plained that tho "ivo-'lreaang order was principally aimed at the suppression of U-o practices which were causing gravo troublo and loss ot naval, military and industrial efficiency during t c early months of the war-namely, giouptreating or tho practice ot each pai=uu in a group taking his tun. to sand drinks all round, and the prae ice ot the indiscriminate treating ol nienilK.is o Forces, particularly when home oil leaic ° l Owing to" tho operation of the order, these practices have by now been so lonG in aboyance that the good sense of the community shoujd suffice to prevent the r revival, with the wasteful and cicebsiit drinking to which thev lead. The Central Control Board have, therefore, come to the conclusion that tho maintenance of the order, with the attendant minor inconveniences v/hicJi are involved by a prohibition of treating and which have been generally accepted _b) the public during tho emergency period of the last four years, is now no longer required in the national interest.