Two Drinks a Day Club.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 197, 24 February 1905, Page 2

Two Drinks a Day Club.

EXPERIMENT IN CONNECTION WITH 4 BIBLE CLASS. The experiment at Grmston to ran a club for members of a Bible class has stood the tost of 12 months’ working. The Club, which is in Lyme Grove, is licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor, but there is a stringent rule that no member shall be served with more than two intoxicating drinks per day. The Bev. C. B. Jones, the curate of the pariah, who conducts the Bible class, started ths club to counteract the influence of the public house, and he claims that “ it was the first practical attempt made in Urmston to aid the oause of true temperance on constructive lines. Practical work of each a kind as this,” he adds, *' is ’ worth all ; , our public meetings and entertainments put together,” There s an 76 members of the club, and 46 i- an total abstainers. No member ' under 26 yean of age has ever asked i to be served with alcoholic drink. The i 80 members who an not total abstain- - era consume on an average only seven i pennyworth of alcoholic drinks a week i each. Mr Jones adduces these facts ' to show the groundlessness of the I fears expressed a year ago that the - club would induce young men to take i to drink.