LIQUOR ON TROOP TRAINS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1919, Page 6

LIQUOR ON TROOP TRAINS.

LAW TO B£ STRICTLY ENFORCED. Wellington, Last Night. Numerous complaints arc 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 war regulations under which it was made an offenee 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, 11)1.5, not only makes it on offence to have intoxicating liquor on a troop train, lint also to supply liquor to any person being carried on a troop, train. The Crown Law Office advises that the expression "being carried on a troop train" must read as applicable not only to those men who, for the time beina:, are actually on 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" as defined in the regulatipns includes not only it train wiiollv reserved for purposes of the Defence Forces, but also a carriage on an ordinary train wholly' or chieflv used by those forces. Tiie greatest efforts are to be made to secure against civilians who supply liquor to troops on troop trains.