"GROWING MENACE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 266, 10 November 1938, Page 24

"GROWING MENACE."

DRINKING BY YOUNG WOMEN. <'HIT.CIIMAN'S ALLEGATIONS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DI NEDIN, this day. An attack on drinking among young women was made by the Rev. Cecil ,J. Tockcr in presenting the report of the temperance committee at the PresbyAssembly. The practice, lie said, was a growing one and an equally growing menace to the country. "The matter of intemperance is a vital and urgent matter to the ( hurch and to the. whole country," said Mr. locker. The menace of drinking was not decreasing and the situation was not one on which the Presbyterian ( hurch could look with anv satisfaction or contentment. "I he menace of intemperance grows from day to day and from week to week and it about it some particular features that mu-t be mentioned." he continued. The speaker then referred to the growing habit of drinking among women. This, he contended, was a real menace to the country, and more so considering tin* extent to which the habit was growing. The degradation of womanhood by intemperance should shake the Church to its very foundations. He asserted that there was another matter and fiat was the effect of the 4(t-hour week upon New Zealand people. "The coining of the 40-hour week," exclaimed Mr. Tocker. "has meant the extension of drinking." lie said he was not speaking from any political standpoint, but was giving his own definite opinions. I At this stage Mr. Tocker requested that in view of the nature of what he had to say, the rest of bis remarks be taken in committee, and to this the Moderator agreed.