PROTECTING SOLDIERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1838, 11 June 1918, Page 3

PROTECTING SOLDIERS.

NO LIQUOR FOR PATIENTS.

Regulations have been gazetted prohibiting the sale of or supply of alcoholic liquor to soldiers who arc undergoing medical treatment. The new rules, which are laid down under the War Regulations Act, are as follow: —

(1.) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall sell or supply any intoxicating liquor—(a). To any member'of an Expeditionary Force (after the date when such member has first been called into a camp of military training) while such member is undergoing medical or curative treatment as a patient in, or an outpatient of, any hospital or other institution, whether such sale or supply takes place within such hospital or other institution as aforesaid or elsewhere; or (h) To any person who has been discharged from an Expeditionary Force, and who is undergoing medical or curative treatment as a patient in, or an outpatient of any hospital or other institution, whether such sale or supply takes place within such hospital or other institution as aforesaid or elsewhere.

(2.) Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall apply to the supply of intoxicating liquor to any person by or pursuant to the directions or with the authority of any medical officer or medical practitioner having control or care of that, person. (3.) It shall be a good defence in any proceedings for a breach of these regulations if the defendant proves that he did not know and had no reasonable ground for suspecting that the person to whom he sold or supplied the intoxicating liquor was a member of an Expeditionary Force, or had been discharged from an Expeditionary Force, and was undergoing medical or curative treatment in any hospital or other institution.