LIQUOR AND SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 23, 22 October 1919, Page 2

LIQUOR AND SOLDIERS

CHAPTERS FOE U.S.A. CI-ÜBS,' Inference to the lini'or question wasmade at vcterdnv's sHiine nf Hip con-. <W->re of the New Zealand Pctnrn"d .W.-Vers' A cc oninlion, when Mr. ,T. Fet)ierH- _(C'iri.^ohurcbS i»>nv«d that the soeintion reonpit to j'rant' charters lo soldiers' club? to Mlcw t 1 »ni to sell alcnhnMc beverrwes. Mr. Pj>'»Vriclc referred t« the fact of ,tw" soldiers'' voles bavin? defeated the prohibition- referendum Artril. "Alpohol is-the mo c t Tl'vine Ihnt God has sent the f aee of the eorth, and is th" only th 1 "? thnt cnrn'es its own nnnishiP?Tif with it," remarked Mr. Pethpriek. amidst Irnifrlifrr. To h.n'P a.- chapter W-V-Vd be fhe only tMprr flint would-keep a-club toother. Tl>d ij „ot been • for the Mthat the wnrki'iS m»iiV club to, w}i>' l lip Ijolnri"nfl hed hnd a charter it would h?,.p "n-oni buni»" lonq; Jlo-Q,

My. V, Pot'pr I'Auck'md) «>rondH fVie motion forma, and v,'enterl to kpr"-r-hr th" Honor i n sue should be b">i!pj>t '•"for" f.hp association so ma"v of its niemWs were against , the drink Hitfi", There was a, elear-eiiit wie i" fiio TVmiriion on the liquor ou n «tion, and f>p f"plinirs of fho wives, mothers. ->iul flnn«ndant.<i of th" fntmnpd fin'' r "" , a •should bo eonciderpd. He was rot <:nppV. in? ncraiiist Honor/but he lo (he ronf'.re'ip" pot to allow Ihe association t" h" d : v'''"d on |-li» I'nnoi- rnmotion. 'Hip motion n-iie nut p»d declared 'Wt. Mr, ppHiprNpk t'ipn ask"d for n H'lnt on the Ground that he wanted to know Mr. Pott«r c'led for the -n-jtliclrnv/hl /if thp t«rm "wowsers." Th.py were fiv'-tinir for nrinc'iles. ai'f' hp 'did not fe°l jivtified in allowing the I'emnrk to go. _ . " 'Wow«»r' 'a a strictly Pnrliamentnrv term, and T'am nrennred to pro'-o it." = n id. Mr. P-;>(ho"iek. who qunted the »v----"'"natio" oivpp n S f 0 Hip mpnning by Ti = : tt in Parliament. Tie m AV, K pT>rl Poffpr n. w't'-'l-nii-nl as the explanation .was in-ST-^pip^f. Fintil'v, Mr. withdraw lh" "ynveosio'i, and the motion was declared lost by 39 to 2.