TEMPERANCE PROBLEM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 9

TEMPERANCE PROBLEM

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY ! RESOLUTIONS IBy Telegraph Press Aaseoiatioal AUCKLAND, 17th November, i In presenting the report ol the tom- j perance committee to the Presbyterian j Assembly to-day, the Rev. E. Gardiner j said the committee was of opinion that j the Church had left too much to the I New Zealand Alliance. It was the' Church that had the key to the prob- j em of temperance. Police statistics showing alarming j nereases in drunkenness and allied of- j tenees were quoted to the assembly,; and speakers expressed the opinion j Rat there were few hotels in the Do- 1 ninion in which liquor could not be! procured after hours. Resolutions ! vere adopted in favour of giving more | emperance instruction, thanking the : Minister of Transport, the Hon. R. i lemple, for his vigorous campaign igainst intemperance on public high- : vays, and requesting the Government ! eriously to consider the application of ' he 40-hour week to liquor bars in ueh a way as to ensure they should ' emain closed on Saturday. The committee was instructed to ormulate a constructive policy calulated to unite the temperance forces ■ if the Church. , 1