LIQUOR FOR GIRLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21144, 30 March 1932, Page 10

LIQUOR FOR GIRLS.

DRINK TAKEN AT DANCES. TAINT UPON COMMUNITY. CHAPLAIN'S APPEAL TO MEN. Special reference to the prevalent evil of giving liquor to girls at dances was made by Canon E. H. Strong, late vicar of St. Mary's, New Plymouth, and chaplain at the New Plymouth Boys' Iligh School, in a sermon at St. Mary's on Sunday morning during a special service in connection with the jubilee reunion of High School old boys. The preacher appealed to his congregation to take active steps to stamp out this virulent social menace. "Thero is one stone you have not yet removed," Paid Canon Strong at the conclusion of his sermon. "There is a stone that sadly needs to be rolled away from this New Zealand of ours. Do you think it is a manly thing to take a girl to a dance and make her drunk? I have seen morning after morning tho results of what has been going on at dances in our own hall. Will you help to stop this ?" After the war people yielded to a reaction and went mad, continued Canon Strong, and that was how the evil practice came about. He agreed with Sir James Parr in his address to the old boys that if all the secondary schools of New Zealand banded together nothing could stop them. Was New Zealand to be a decent, clean land ? It rested with the young men.

Tho preacher then made a final appeal to the old boys of what he believed was the greatest school in New Zealand to units and help to remove the menace ho had referred to. Ho hoped they would make every endeavour to raise the community from tho sink into which it had fallen and remove the taint of uncleanliness and beastliness.