N.Z. ALLIANCE

Southland Times, Issue 21091, 24 May 1930, Page 8

N.Z. ALLIANCE

ANNUAL MEETING. YOUTH AND ALCOHOL. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, May 23. The evening session of the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance was devoted to education and youth work. The opening was under the direction of the youth movement against alcoholism, presided over by Mr. N. R. Seddon, Dominion president.

Mr. J. Malton Murray', general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, said that he had come to the conclusion that as far as the large masses of young men and women were concerned, they were ignorant or indifferent tq’ the liquor problem. He suggested that young people could be interested by suggesting to them the contrast of what could be done for healthy sport in the way of providing playing grounds, etc., if the £7,500,000 now spent on alcoholic liquor were devoted to those purposes.

The meeting considered the . matter of making scientific temperance teaching more effective, especially in relation to the further development of Band of Hope work and amongst the young people associated with the churches. The following motions were carried: “That the Alliance tenders to Sir Joseph Ward its sincere sympathy in his illness, and hopes that freedom from the burdens of office may well forward his recovery to health;” “This meeting records its high appreciation of the lifelong service to the temperance cause rendered by Rt. Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Stout, and takes pride in their association with the work of the New Zealand Alliance. It expresses the deepest sympathy with him in his illness.’’ Cordial good will messages were also sent to the Hon. L. M. Isitt, M.L.C., the Rev. W. J. Williams, Christchurch, Mr. Weslej” Spragg, Auckland, Mrs. Lee Cowie and Mrs.' J. Dawson and family. The meeting unanimously adopted fhe following resolution: That we again call upon the Government to secure full enforcing of the existing'law in regard to licensed hotels, especially in connection -with after hours trading, and urge the. need for affording the police more adequate means of dealing with these matters; That in view of the circumstances that the customs and excise duties on intoxicating liquor in New Zealand are notably less than those in Australia and Great Britain, and further, in view of the.fact that increased taxation of liquor tends to reduce the consumption, we urge the Government to impose additional customs and excise duties on all alcoholic liquors for beverages purposes.

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