COCKTAIL DRINKING
PRACTICE IN SYDNEY COUNTRY WOMAN'S PROTEST Mrs. Lance Smith, president of the western group of the Country Women's Association at Forbes, New South Wales, attacked the practice of cocktail drinking in a recent address to members of the association. She said she realised that she ran the risk of being unpopular with a section of society, but she considered it time for some protest to he made. Leading society women were deliberately closing their eyes to the menace, and were not taking action that might carry weight. The cocktail parlours in Sydney were growing. She considered them a horror. Perhaps the greatest evidence of the evil, said Mrs. Smith, was seen at country dances and balls, where young men and young women seemed to think nothing of a practice that became offensive to others. She was not a prohibitionist, but she thought the evil was going too far. Women of the country should assert their influence where thev saw cocktail drinking going on, and she thought it would be a very good thing if girls refused to dance with young men who were under the influence of drink. That might result in preventing the spread of the bad habit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21859, 23 July 1934, Page 7
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201COCKTAIL DRINKING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21859, 23 July 1934, Page 7
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