DRINKING AMONG YOUNG WOMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2791, 30 September 1924, Page 2

DRINKING AMONG YOUNG WOMEN.

CLARET CUP CONDEMNED.

“The frequent introduction into social entertainments of claret cup and other milder forms of alcoholic beverages is only the thin end of the wedge, of an insidious evil, and we have to sit up and take notice,” deela red Mr 11. E. Pacey, at a public meeting in Palmerston N. last night, 'idle remark was made in the course of a general denunciation of the increasing practice of liquor consumption by young men and young women, particularly at social gatherings throughout the Dominion.

Tf any circumstances was required with the havoc that was being need for prohibition in the Dominion Mi Pacey said it was supplied by the appalling increase in drinking in New Zealand by young men and young women.

The Anglican Synod, which had met at Napier, had been so impressed with the havie that was being v. rought among thc.young life of the Dominion that it had passed a spe rial resolution on the subject, and >ome of the remarks passed there were very pointed indeed and indi- < alive of a wider vision being brought to bear by some of the social and religious workers as a result of (be new development. The speaker quoted the Dean of Napier when lie said that “be knew ladies who dare not face the responsibility for the behaviour of the men and girls who come to them and brought liquor with them.” These words, Air Pacey said, should cause everyone to bestir themselves, and if they had been zealous in the past towards the abolition of liquor more zeal would be required in future for the need was greater than it had been in the past. “This is not confined to Napier,’’ lie said, and continued to instance flic case of a man not far from Palmerston N. who had given a dance at his own house conditionally that there should be no alcohol and when he found that the young men and young women had brought whisky with them, he bid them good-nigh! and terminated the dance.

“It is up to us,” he concluded, “to make Bod’s Own Country so that it will share some of the benefits which prohibition lias brought to some of ihe other countries of the world."