DRINK AND DRUGS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3288, 6 March 1926, Page 8

DRINK AND DRUGS

A METHODIST ALARM. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Yesterday. At yesterday’s session of the Methodist Conference, Mr A. J. Perrott (Now Plymouth), moved that the conference should draw the attention of the Government to the growing practice of excessive drinking by young men and women at dancca, and that the use of sweets containing drugs, prevalent at such gatherings, was leading many young women Into serious trouble. He urged the conference to call on the Government bo take the necessary steps to make impossible the continuance of such dangerous and evil pracI tices. Mr Perrott said he knew himself of young women from respectable homes who frequented dance halls and other places of amusement, and there had had drugs administered to them in the form of sweets, and as a result they had fallen into serious trouble. H* was thinking of the case of a young girl in a New Plymouth tea room who had fallen in this way. She was a girl with absolutely no evil tendencies or desires, and yet she had fallien, through no fault of her own.

He considered that some drastic aotlon should be taken by the Government to put tills sort of thing down.