BRAKE ON WAR EFFORT

Evening Star, Issue 24281, 24 August 1942, Page 6

BRAKE ON WAR EFFORT

PREVALENCE OF SOCIAL EVILS DRASTIC REFORMS URGED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, August 23. A crowd estimated at over 3,500 packed the Auckland Town Hall this afternoon and contributed £BO to the expenses of the meeting! which was addressed by clergymen on the liquoy traffic and social evils in relation to the war effort. ■ The meeting demonstrated its enthusiastic agreement with the speakers and carried a resolution that “ in view of the supreme emergency' facing the nation requiring the elimination, of all sources of weakness and the strengthening of life morally and spiritually, this meeting solemnly calls on citizens to meet the emergency by the personal example of a strictly disciplined life and the exercise of their influence to bring this about in others.”

Those present took a pledge to do their utmost to provide healthy means of recreation for the men and women of the armed forces, and called upon the civic authorities to provide additional facilities for the social intercourse of young men and women away from an atmosphere of vice. Dealing with the restriction of serious abuses which were stated to exist, the meeting carried a resolution embodying 12 points for to the Government. Some of the points were the closing of night clubs which existed for drinking purposes, tile immediate appointment of more women police for the control of juvenile prostitution, the closing of all bars after mid-day on Saturday, aud the cessation of the sale of spirits.