DRINK AND THE NAVY.
In an address in Sydney !a.«t week. Admiral Sir George King-Hall said that no grog was allowed in the Australian navy, and the men were reported to be of the highest efficiency. He explained that the temperance movement, in the Royal Navy was commenced in 1860 on the battle ship Russell, when the speaker was a boy of 10. ' The captain of that ship, the Admiral's father, called the men together, and pointed out to them that most of the crime in the navy was due to drink. He asked how many of the men would volunteer to do without their allowance of gro" for throe months if h 6 would abstain from his wine. Forty men volunteered, and at the end of the three months the whole of the 40 had kept their pledge and 50 more joined. That was the beginning of the movement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15130, 22 October 1912, Page 8
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