Military Canteens

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4500, 7 December 1909, Page 1

Military Canteens

ALLIANCE’S PROTEST I

A STRONG OBJECTION

Wellington, December 4 The executive of the New Zealand Alliance while not now entering into the discussion of the general subject, of compulsory military training re-" solved at a special meeting to-day*;! “ That in as much as the canteen iti military camps serves no useful purpose, but is a source of dangerous temptation to many, and has hequenti ly led to j scenes of regrettable excels* and disorder the executive of the Alliance enters its emphatic protest against the inclusion of canteens: for the .sale of intoxicating liquors in the Military Bill which ! to come before Parliament duril the coming week. It believes tha when parents realised the danger t which their sons will be exposet through the canteen, many will ris in protest and decline the military proposals altogether, rather thstE risk the ruin of their sons. Ther? are fathers who quite approve of the| principles of volunteering as such for their sens, who will have good, reason to oppose the whole system ill their boys are to be exposed to the drinking customs which destroy; more lives than a foreign foe has ever destroyed.” J