TE AROHA BAND OF HOPE.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 98, 18 April 1885, Page 2

TE AROHA BAND OF HOPE.

A meeting of the above was held in j the Wesleyan Church on last Tuesday evening. Mr Ilctt :n the chair. The meeting having been opened in the usual manner, the programme consistingof recitations, readings, songs, etc., arranged for the evening, was very successfully gone through. Miss Belford, from Auckland, an experienced worker in the temperance cause, bot'i in the colony and X Scotland,' gave a very practical and interesting address, which was listened to with great attention. In the course of her address, she spoke r s follows: "Thebopeof the nation depends on the enrolment of the young in Temperance Societies. The young people can say to the drink sellers • stand aside, here (we) come the future votejrs on the liquor question/ The victims ot ! strong drink need not look to drunkards to assist them — they must look to the sober ones if they want help and sympathy Whilst doing all they could towarusj'eclaiming those who have become victims of the drink, still they must look; more, io prevention as a means. of « the greatest ,- Vo'od. The speaker related, an amusing,-/ anecdote of an hotel-keeper's' wife c hliought it a fine lark!; on .one pecasion'-to^ -,< '•mt the blue ribbon' o^two^r'^ic^jH^: > who wtire too di-uhkv'wUe^i^uyi^^h^,