SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1916, Page 7

SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING.

ADDRESS TO SOLDIERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, July 5. In the course of an address to the 18th Reinforcements yesterday LieutenantColonel Potter, Commandant at Trentham Camp, made special reference to the six o'clock closing question. He reminded the men that they were not allowed to bring liquor into camp, also that they were prohibited from having bottled liquor in their possession. '"Now," he. added, "J want to refer to a vexed question that is troubling the people, namely, six o'clock closing, which means prohibition for you men. because if the Droposal is carried you cannot get to the hotels before the bars are closed. I am strenuously opposing the proposal The reason T do so is because 1 trust every man, and until a man is found wanting I do not want him penalised It all depends on you men. by your conduct, as to whether six o'clock closing is to be carried into law We have not asked for it. and we do not ask for it. It is a big temptation, but I say that if you men are fit to go into countries where the control of alcohol liquors is not so ; drastic as in New Zealand you should | first he capable of looking after yourselves here, of showing yon are able to exercise self-control under New Zealand conditions. 1 want yon, by your behavjour, to support my contention. You are men, anil should be treated as men while you behave like men."