BREAKING THE PLEDGE
WINE AT WEDDING BREAKFASTS
(By Telegraph.)
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AUCKLAND, This Day. The increasing vogue of wins-drink-ing at wedding breakfasts and other gatherings, as countenanced even by church members with Prohibition sympathies, is a social custom that is viewed with apprehension by the Auckland Ministers' Association. At the monthly meeting yesterday, Professor Ranston spoke of the danger to which young people were exposed in acquiring the taste for liquor by indulging for the first time at marriage festivities, and quoted several instances of pledged members of young peoples' temperance societies being persuaded to break the pledge on such occasions. He considered that the ministers should make some pronouncement on the question. The Rev. George Jackson suggested that the best way to discourage the practice was for the ministers, before consenting to perform the marriage ceremony, to stipulate that no wine should be served at the reception.
A resolution was adopted along the lines of tho- discussion. ' •
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 10
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