New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 75, 4 March 1916, Page 3

New Zealand

WET CANTEENS. NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCLE RESOLUTIONS. Per rRFRs Association. Wellington, .March 2. At a special meeting of the executive of the .New Zealand Alliance the following resolution.* were adopted : "That the New Zealand Alliance stand* definitely and unflinchingly opposed to the establishment of wet canteens i,i military camps, as being opposed to military discipline and efficiency" ; "that in the best interests of our soldiers in training, and of those who have returned from the front, the Alliance earnestly appeals to the Government to follow the example of the ■military authorities at Home by severely restricting the hours of sale of liquor, and by making all forms of 'shouting' illegal. and m the meantime begs all true friends of the soldiers and of the Empire to discourage 'shouting' in every possible way" : "that whereas the war has reached a ; stage at which a call for national and individual economy and self-denial, and for military and industrial efficiency, has become clearer and stronger than ever, this executive regrets that the Defence authorities should be embarrassed by demands for relaxing the present restrictions on the .worst enemy of all these causes, and considers that the thanks of the community are due to the Minister of Defence for the firm stand that he has taken in opposition to these demands, and that he should be supported by all good citizens in maintaining and extending the present safeguards, both inside and outside the camps."