SOCIAL EVILS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 2

SOCIAL EVILS

NEED FOR DISCIPLINE AUCKLAND MEETING A crowd estimated at oyer 3506 , packed the Auckland Tpwoflfpjl pii Sunday arid contributed ‘£so" to ' .tlip expenses of the meeting, which was addressed by clergymen op the liquor traffic arid social evils iii" relation to the war effort. The meeting demonstrated its enthusiastic agreement' with the speakers and carried a motion that -‘ip view of the supreme emergency facing the nation requiring the elimination of all sources of weakness arid the strengthening' of life morally and spiritually, this tpepting solemnly calls pn citizens toi meet the emergency by personal example of a strictly disciplined life and the exercise of their influence to bring this about in others.” Those present took a pledge tp dp their' utmost to provide" mpans of recreatipp for men 'ppd Women of armed forces arid called u|jan the civic authorities to provide additional facilities for social inter--course of young men and women away from the atmosphere of vice. Dealing with the restriction of the serious abuses stated to exist, the meeting carried a resolution embodying 12 .points for transmission to the Government. Some of the points were: The closing of night clubs which existed for drinking. purposes; the immediate appointment of more women police for the control of juvenile prostitution; ' the closing of . all bars after mid-day on Saturday and the cessatiqp of the sale of spirits. . :