DANGERS OF ALCOHOL

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30769, 5 June 1965, Page 19

DANGERS OF ALCOHOL

School Talks Discussed

While talks aimed at the! prevention of alcholism were i being given to Form V and Form VI pupils in Christchurch secondary schools, he was worried that those who ] left school at the age of 15] were being missed, said the I chairman of the Canterbury! branch of the National Society | on Alcoholism (Dr. E. B. | Reilly), when presenting his j report to the branch’s annual |

meeting. Many of those who left at] this age became apprentices, i They tended to take their I standards on drinking from! older workers in their group, I and these standards were not I always suitable for youths of j 17 or 18. he said. Mr M. G. L. Loughnan sug-] gested that lectures in schools be given at an earlier stage than Forms V' and VI, and a resolution to this effect, to be referred to the branch executive committee for consideration. was adopted. A resolution that the licensed trade be approached to organise activities for

young people during long week-ends or holiday periods, was made by Mr D. Barrett It was also adopted for con-] sideration by the committee. I Officers elected were:—i chairman, Dr. E. B. Reilly;! deputy-chairman, Brigadier F. W. Hay; secretary, Mr S. A. Dowiand; executive committee, Messrs D. Barrett, T. E. Roff, W. F. Brown and M, G. 1.. Loughnan and Dr. K. O'Connor; co-opted members, the Rev. J. Galvin, representing the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, the Dean of Christchurch (the Very Rev. W. A. Pyatt), Mrs C. Truman, representing the Society for the Preservation of Home and Family; Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., representing the Magistracy; Inspector G. E. Twentyman, representing the Commissioner of Police, and Mr N Hattaway, representing the Christchurch Junior Chamber of Commerce.