WAR REGULATIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1916, Page 3

WAR REGULATIONS

GOME DIFFICULT PROBLEMS; ' I The war regulations to be drawn up under the Act of last session are being awaited with great interest. They are now' being drafted, and should be ready l'or the consideration of Cabinet in the course of a few days. The regulation which will affect most people directly; will be that to give effect to the "anti-shouting" clause in the Act. As the Act defines with some exactness what "shouting" or '•treating" shall be deemed to 1 mean, tliig regulation should not lie difficult to frame. There are others, .however, afi'ecting the sale of liquor which will present more serious difficulties. Most difficult of all will be those affecting the liberty in certain respects of certain women. It is proposed that the police shall lave more power to deal with sly-grog dens and houses of ill-fame. The regulations* according to the -.Minister's statement on the subject, will also give the authorities power to detain convicted persons who lire sufl'ering from venereal disease. The Minister's scheme involves also the establishment of special clinics for the treatment, but not the detention, of persons afflicted with one or other of these diseases. Xo doubt this will also be provided for in the regulations. As these regulations involve delicate (pic.i- | t.ions of policy, afi'ecting the liberty of people, it is certain that they will be very carefully considered by Cabinet, and they may not be gazetted foj r.bout a fortnight. f