LICENSING POLL IN N.Z.
Methodists Urged To Vote Prohibition
(New Zealand Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, Nov. 13.
“Whether we like it or not. prohibition is the only way of registering our protest against the encroachments of the liquor trade.” said the Rev. I. Ramage, convener of the Methodist Temperance Committee, addressing the New Zealand Methodist conference in Palmerston North today.
The committee’s report stated that any decrease in the vote for prohibition at this stage would tend to encourage future governments to give way to the pressure of the liquor trade. It was imperative that those concerned with temperance should express concern at this stage of the country’s development by supporting the prohibition vote.
The work of Alcoholics Anonymous was warmly commended to all Methodist people, but the opinion was expressed by the conference that a community which permitted the sale of alcohol was as responsible for the results of alcoholism as those persons who were victims of the disease. Total abstinence was still the most practical way of combating alcholism, it was stated.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 7
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