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MEN IN MILITARY CAMPS “WET” CANTEENS FAVOURED (Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Wednesday The establishment of wet canteens in military camps was advocated by Mr J. Hargest (Opposition—Awarua) during the second reading debate on the War Expenses Bill in the House of Representatives to-night. Mr Hargest said he had never seen drunkenness in any of the military camps with which he had been associated. In Wellington in 1914, however, and later in Egypt, he had seen a great deal of drunkenness when young men got leave and went into the city. Wet canteens were set up in Egypt and that stopped. The men had no incentive to rush out and get liquor in large quantities.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20921, 28 September 1939, Page 11
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117NO DRUNKENNESS SEEN Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20921, 28 September 1939, Page 11
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