TEETOTAL FLEET WANTED.
BY ADMIRAL KIXG-HALL. (Br Tc!cj:raph-Prc£3 Association.) ' Auckland, November 2". * Speaking at a meeting in the Opera Hjtise on Sunday afternoon, Admiral 'King-Hall' gave a short address, pointing out the advances that had recently been made bv tho temperauco movement in lI.M. Xnvy. He said he was one of six Admirals who were strong temperance advocates, aud he wished to identify himself with the temperance movement. His father was an Admiral before him, and was ono of the first instigators of tho lemperancu movement in the Xavy. To-day 2.5,000 sailors were teetotallers. He considered that 60 per cent, of the trouble in the British Navy was caused through the use of drink. There was one vessel.whic.il for two years had held the shooting records. It vas a practice on that ship never to servo drink allowr unce until after the final shots were fired.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 28 November 1911, Page 6
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146TEETOTAL FLEET WANTED. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 28 November 1911, Page 6
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