GUNS AND FOOD BEFORE BEER
PRESBYTERY’S RESOLUTION A protest against the transport of beer from Auckland to Bluff when transport of other goods was being restricted was made at a meeting ox the Christchurch Presbytery yesterday. The following resolution, based on a motion introduced by the convener of the temperance committee (the Rev. D. D. MacLachlan) and supporting the protest made recently by the Womens Christian Temperance Union, is to be sent to the Minister of Supply (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan):— “This Presbytery recognises that the time has come in our total war effort when beer must be sacrificed for guns and food. Even our women are being conscripted and household necessities rationed, yet sugar in .large quantities is being used in brewing to the detriment in many cases of our troops and war workers. Rail and shipping facilities are seriously impaired, yet beer is transported. “We feel that we cannot call our people to fuller sacifice until still more rigid legislation .is imposed on this favoured traffic. We cannot face the efficient forces against us as we should if essentials are to be used for production of a national dope in war
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23715, 13 August 1942, Page 3
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