NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, 29 May 1919, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

LIQUOR ON TROOP TRAINS. LAW TO EE STRICTLY', ENFORCED (Special Correspondent.')'" WELLINGTON.' this* day. Numerous compia,i'n(.s are being received regarding intoxicating liquor on troop trains, especially with regard to returning troops. Consequently the Defence Department has specially directed the attention of . its officers to the Wav Regulations under which it was an offence to bring intoxicating liquor on a troop train, and to impress upon them the necessity for the enforcement of these regulations. Clause 14 of the War Regulations of loth November 1915, not only makes it an offence to have intoxicating liquor on a trooo train, but also to supply liquor to any person being carried oh a troop train. The Crown Law Office advices that- the expression "being carried on a troop train’’ must read as applicable not only to those men, who for the timebeing, are actually cn board the train, but also to men who, during the course of their journey may be at any time temporarily off the train. The term “troop train” defined in the regulations, and includes not only a train wholly reserved for purposes of the Defence Forces, but also a carriage on an ordinary train wholly or chiefly used by those forces. The greatest efforts are to be made to secure convictions against civilians who supply liquor to troops on troop trams.