Temperance in Navy.
_.. . ♦- GROG-GIVING CONDEMNED. SO 1.1)1 Kits WHO ABSTAIN. LONDON, May 14. Ji! ;i speech yesterday ;tt tlic Hand of - Hope conference, Admiral King-Hall ;late of the Australian sipiadron) drew it tout ion to the progress of the temperance movement ill the navy. He icld, however, that there was still room in improvement. He condemned the giving of grog to the sailors, and de•lared that "i' l per cent, of the men i\oiild surrender their grog if a small tvage inclement were substituted. He lopeil that the Admiralty would spend [he necessarv L'HI),IHHI in this reform. rtliM-h would lead to an increase' in ■Hi< ieitcy. (a|>tain Weldi declared that ■")<> per -.•lit. ui the soldiers in India were total ihstiiilieis.
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Waikato Times, Issue 12868, 15 May 1914, Page 5
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