CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND
INCREASE IN SOBRIETY ABOLITION OF SLUMS SYDNEY, Oct. 24. Tho .Rev. Leonard Gabbot, of St. John’s, Rochdale, who returned from England by the Jervis Bay, noticed many changes in England since he left there 25 years ago. Ho said the two most gratifying were a large increase in sobriety and the gradual abolition of slum areas. During his eight months in England, Mr. Gabbot said he (lid not see ono intoxicated man or woman, nlthought he visited all tho large industrial cities and travelled extensively through rural areas. Working men today had less money to spend, and were better educated, and picture theatres provided entertainment to keep them out of public houses in leisure hours. Tho restriction of trading hours for hotels curtailed opportunities for drinking. Mr. Gabbot found that a nationwide drive for the abolition of slums w r as having effect. Tho Prince of Wales, he considered, had been the inspiration of the drive, his doctrine that Great Britain could not, afford to allow the slums to remain having appealed to the common sense of the English people. Everywhere one saw large areas of municipal tenements and houses.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 7
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193CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 7
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