TOTAL ABSTENTION FROM LIQUOR
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY’! RECOMMENDATION (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. November 8. ■ Members of the Presbyterian Church should be urged to abstain totally from intoxicating liquor, and also to prevent its distribution at functions for which they were responsible. This recommendation by the convener nf the temperance committee (the Rev. K. Hadfield) was adopted by the Presbyterian Assembly in Auckland to-day. Speakers said* that the responsibility for drunkenness should be pinned down on the people concerned. Many districts were being spoiled by the number of "drunken orgies” in pri* vate homes. There was no middle way for who should be impelled to be total abstainers. A good example should oe set by pakehas. . Christian people, it was said, hindered the police by their refusal to Sive evidehce in court on charges o runkenness. “Intoxicating liquor is vnnecessa*. to the progress of man." said Rev. J. D. Smith, of Auckland, n complicates Jiving because it in *£ r ' feres with mans higher capfcitie?-
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26265, 9 November 1950, Page 6
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