CLERGYMAN DENOUNCES ALCOHOL AT WEDDINGS
(Special to the “Star.") AUCKLAND, July 9. The Rev W. T. Comrie, president of the New Zealand Alliance, referred at a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery to the practice of drinking alcohohc beverages at weddings. He said he feared that was one of the ways young people, including many belonging to the churches, first learned to take intoxicating liquor. In that matter a »rave responsibility rested on ministers and he asked the co-operation of members of the Presbytery m the direction of increasing public sentiment in favour of abstinence and the observance of the existing laws regulating the liquor traffic. Mr Comrie said he considered that in the past supporters of temperance had laid too much stress on the result of the vote and neglected education on the benefits of abstinence from the use of alcohol as a beverage. The Presbytery agreed to ask its Temperance Committee consider the question of sending to ministers circulars concerning the matter referred to L>y Mr Comrie.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19118, 10 July 1930, Page 11
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