ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
AN OAMARU TEMPERANCE REFUGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVKSMTG- MAIL. Sir, —It seems not to have occurred to> the loaders of the Temperance cause in this place that there exists, a demand upon them besides that of pledging drunkards.. It is this. A man takes the pledge, he is; in desperate circumstances, lie has no> home, no friends, no place of refuge ; th& hotels, boarding-houses, and restaurants, all sell liquor, he is thrown into direct temptation, what can he do ? Hj»vis/fc has no work, who will find him atql; Perhaps he is a stranger, our i floating one ; there are- many strangers,, ind among them many drunkards. Of this number there are members of professions, trades, and laborers, many of them capable of becoming useful members, of society. Mr. C. G. Moore has taken the important work of temperance reformation in hand. Let him further the cause; he has espoused by founding a Refuge and! Temperance Lecture Hall. There is about L 15,000 expended in the liquor trade of Oamaru; out of this sum' the Temperance cause ought to be; aMte- to accomplish the end in view.—l am, &c., Anti-Drink.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 892, 24 February 1879, Page 2
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193ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 892, 24 February 1879, Page 2
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