ISLAND NATIVES AND STRONG DRINK
TEMPERANCE LECTURER’S RETURN
According to Mrs. Lee Cowie, the well-known temperance lecturer, the natives in the Islands have very little love for strong drink. She returned this morning from a three months’ lecturing tour in Honolulu and a three weeks’ stay In Fiji.
Mrs. Lee Cowie said that she held meetings every day and that she assisted every church and Christian society. In Fiji she spoke through two interpreters and gave as many as six meetings a day. Although the natives do not drink much liquor they take a native beverage called “yangona.” Mrs. Lee Cowie said that she was trying to get them to stop drinking it, and her efforts were crowned with success In many instances.
It was the first sustained mission which had ever visited the South Sea Islands, said Mrs. Lee Cowie, who enjoyed the trip very much.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 166, 4 October 1927, Page 13
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