TEMPLARS5 LODGE MEETING

Evening Star, Issue 18020, 14 July 1922, Page 8

TEMPLARS 5 LODGE MEETING

The Hope of Dunedin Lodge of Templars held its meeting on Wednesday evening in the lodge room, Dowling street, Bro. South C.T., presiding. Four new members were added to the membership, two by initiation and two by_ clearance cards. Notification was received from District Lodge that the next session would be held in the Rescue Lodge Room on the 18th inst. The D.C.T. also announced that all arrangements were complete for the opening of the lodge at Green Island on Monday, August 8. The sisters were responsible for the latter part of the evening, their programme being an excellent one. Sister Agnew was C.T., and served the assembly with tea a-nd_ cakes, followed ■by a series of games, which wore heartily enjoyed. A report of Mr Hammond’s meeting was also part of the programme. A pamphlet was received on the subject of alcohol written by Dr W. A. Chappie, an ex-M.P. (Now Zealand; and Scottish boroughs). The title of the pamphlet was ‘The Truth About Alcohol.’ The Grand Councillors stated that some of the sentences were worthy of quotation, coming as they did from one in the doctor's position. He read two of them: “The false doctrine that the cause of alcoholic _ evils resides in men, and not in the liquor itself, is very largely responsible for the continuation of those evils, in spite of all the knowledge that has been gathered by scientific investigation and observation during the past half-century.” “The greatest danger in the of British youth to-day is drink, and it is becoming a more and more conspicuous fact that no one is found to defend it, except those who like it and those who malm it pay."