NEW NOTE STRUCK

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1937, Page 6

NEW NOTE STRUCK

By Telegraph—Press Association.

. ♦ — PROBLEM OF ABORHON DRINK AT PUBLIC DANCES JOINT CHURCH APPEAL

Auckland, Last Night. Since the publication on April 12 of the report of the matemity services investigation committee set up by the Government to inquire into the incidence of abortion in New Zealand a flood of resolutions from nuxnerous sources has been sent to the Government. Clerics of Auckland prominent throughout the New Zealand Church have prepared for the Government a joint appeal that strikes rather a different note from the formal resolutions to which much publicity has been given. "We urge upon the Government the duty of taking immediate and dr&stie action to deal with the evil that threatpns the very existence o£ the nation," the appeal states. "We also believe the Government should deal with certain provocative causes of the situation complained of, including the sale of salacious literature and the use of liquor at and in the vicinity of public dances. "We make this appeal to the Government with a deep sense of our responaibility to the nation," continuea the statement, "and with the very gravcSt aense of the extreme urgency of the matter and of the irreparable harm inflicted on the minds and hearta of the young by these evils." Signatories to the appeal are Archuishop Averill, Bishop Liston, the RCv. J. A. Allan, representing the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. E. D. Patchett, chairman of the Auckland Methodist District Synod, D?. J. J. North, representing Ihe Auckland Baptist Auxiliary, the Rev. H. Johnson, Moderator of the Auckland Congregational Churches, Brigedier A. J. Sutter, Auckland divisicmal commander of the Salvation Army, and the Rev. A. Astor, tabbi of the Auckland Kebrew oongregation.