ALCOHOL AT WEDDINGS
CLERGYMAN’S DENUNCIATION' AUCKLAND, ...J-ul||9. - The Rev. W. J. Comm, of tlie New Zealand Alliance, feieriect-to a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery to the practice of drinking beverages at weddings. He said feared that was one of the ways vo ting people, including many 'belonging ,td. the churches, first learned to take toxioating liquor. In that, matter7s; grave responsibility rested on nvini|ters, and he asked the eo-operatioii bf ; members of the Presbytery in direction of increasing public seutii‘l inent in favour of abstinence and tlraT observance of the existing laws repjjj luting the liquor traffic. H ?| Colnrie said he considered fthWiT in the past supporters of •'•yd laid too much stress on the result of the vote and neglected cdueaV ; on on the benefits of from the use of alcohol as a beverage. I '-'.
The. Presbytery agreed to ask its Temperance Committee to consider thequestion of sending to ministersoircu’-l lars concerning the matter referred "to by Air Comrie.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1930, Page 6
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