THE CANTEEN QUESTION.
QUEENSLAND’S EXPERIENCE. United Pkess Association— Corvuiant MELBOURNE, Dec. 7. Colonel Foxton, discussing the Defence Bill, said he had of a camp at Queensland run on temperance lines. There was no canteen. On the first niglit many men walked four miles and got beer; The second' night was worse. He had never seen so much drunkenness in a camp. ; To save the situation, lie got some barrels of beer. From that out the drunkenness ceased.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2679, 8 December 1909, Page 5
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77THE CANTEEN QUESTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2679, 8 December 1909, Page 5
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