Temperance Meeting.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 120, 19 November 1895, Page 2

Temperance Meeting.

The Theatre Royal, Palmerston N., was filled last night on the occasion of the second meeting m connection with the Temperance Convention, Grand Chief Templar Bro. R. N. Adams, of Dundin, who opened the meeting, gave a short sketch of the origin and rise of the 1.0.0. T. The Rev. J. Miller, of Napier, in a short and impassioned address, gave three reasons why ministers of the Gospel should take part in the temperance movement, viz., (1) Because they were : citizens, (2) because they were parents, (3) and because they were Christians. Bro. E. A. Haggen, editor of " The People," Wellington, in a spirited address, put his hearers on their guard against the inception of a " Tammany 1 Hall." He also gave a short account of 1 the proceedings in regard to the Waverley Hotel afc Wellington, and the alteration in the Liquor Bill which allowed of the removal of the license to Newtown. .Mr Haggen urged the necessity for the abolition of party government, and congratulated this district on having a member who had shown a splendid amount of backbone. Next session, he said, they must apply for the reinstatement in the Liquor Act of the clauses relating to national prohibition and clubs. During the 44 years of its existence the 1.0. G.T. has rescued half a million drunkards. The meeting closed with an appropriate hymn. — Standard.