METHODIST TEMPERANCE MEETING
TO THE EDITOB OF TSE PfIESS. Sir,—lt has been a great disappointment to many people that the Methodist Conference now sitting in Christchurch has so far held no public temperance meeting, nor has it made any declaration concerning the injurious effects of the liquor traffic At the opening of the conference the new president gave a most comprehensive address concerning the evils affecting the world, and of his ideas of the duty of the Church in combating them, but made no reference to this, one of the greatest of them all. Considering that New Zealand has between the polls of 1928 and 1935 spent £37,597,231 on alcoholic liquor, which resulted in 25,475 convictions for drunkenness, and 13,434 for driving while under the influence of liquor, besides many other offences, it is sur.ely a strange oversight on the part of a body like the conference of the Methodist Church to ignore this great evil. —Yours, etc.. A METHODIST WOMAN.
February 20, 1936. L"This subject was dealt with before the conference closed, but after this letter was written," said the Rev. E. P. Blamircs, president of the Methodisf conference, who was asked to comment on this letter.]
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21715, 24 February 1936, Page 9
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