ALCOHOL INSTEAD OF TEA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 29 August 1945, Page 4

ALCOHOL INSTEAD OF TEA

COUNCIL OF WOMEN CONCERNED Wellington, This Day. " 1 lie growing custom of cclehraiing anyilung ami everything, in office an<J factory, with alcohol, instead of ihe prewar tea and cakes.” was described ,*•« disquieting’ by the Wellington bruit.-h of the National Council of Women, in « vidence before the Royal Commission ou Licensing in Wellington yesterday. The branch was replying to the chairman. Mr. .Justice Nnilh, who, at an curlier Strung, asked whether, in in* opinion. excessive drinking among voting people had increased or otherwise since v.mi . * "Wo were disappointed.” stated the hr; in li. "at being unable to g«'i specific informal inn from the official organisations dealing with th welfare of women and young people generally \t the same tunc they admitted that drink, cither direr; ,y or indirectly, was one of the main thevTanv* Uia "'. ," i ' ,hc t “ fSo * with which "The opinion seem* to be generally li-Jd that there is more drinking among w..n.e« and voting people than m isirjp. v «*rj young gins, in pnrticuxr. having a.-quireil ihe taste for alcohol. This may be largely <iue to the influx of servicemen and annormal conditions dm- to war. . v ,f ,lu * incident f drunkenness is j. ss. It IS merely because of the lowered ai.,.kolie content of beer and the sc.-tr.in „u < consequent high price of all spin,-, ns wo feel that from the above fads it appear that a larger propor:ion of the roP uu,tv “It is generally Cared that a worsr Position will arise when the s;i H dv re turns to normal if the al.-oholie run ten* is raised at all and no r.strietiou is