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Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 6

The Hope of Dunedin Lodge of Good Templars held its weekly meeting on Wednesday evening, Bro A. Gibson, P.C.T., presiding (and afterwards the C.T., Bro. E. South). One candidate was initiated. A very interesting letter from Bro. Kerr, now in Dargaville, was received. After the usual recess the programme, “ Sing, recite, or par threepence,” gave an opportunity to hear new talent and subjects of interest. Bro. Gore took for his subject ' Sixty Years Ago,’ when he joined the Junior Garibaldi Cadets, very popular then in England, and exhibited a photo of himself taken when a member of this band. They were pledged to total abstinence. He ' was congratulated on having proved faithful. One member introduced the community singing movement, and it was decided to purchase 100 of the campaign song books published by the New Zealand Alliance. The Lodge Deputy took for his subject ‘An Economic Waste.’ He said that, tested by the standard of utility, the drink traffic ■stands condemned a« a great economic waste. The capital invested in the manufacture of liquor is not only a misuse of capital, urgently required for industrial expansion, but destroys what other capital ayd labor produce, giving no useful equivalent in return. Mr F. B. Adams was introduced by the Grand Councillor. He said l that to read that New Zealand spent £7,551,274 on drink from January 1 to December 31, 1921, was certainly. startling. This amount was more than two and one-third times the total rates collected by all the cities, towns, harbor boards, and other local bodies in New Zealand for the year 1919-20, and was practically equivalent to their toal revenue from all sources. After •»ome discussion it was resolved* on Sister Gain’s motion, to congratulate Mr Adams on the clear manner in which he had prejgnte'd the facts contained in his report, *,n3 to thank him for his willing services '^■^e--causo-,oi--teniperan(»»