TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42777, 12 September 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

THE ROYAL NAVY" ;•>* .; XTS&I8B f / Tcmperancesboieties ire making »pid atrides m mmjl •|jeߣpjj)f influence and power are seeing fch® necessity of doing 5 something to stay the torrent of | intemperance in our land,' that | ft will not he Burprisine io-find |d|thet consideraiioa that our Nary only numbers about fifty-eighty thousand eight hundred men, | and - that from -seven -to eight | thousand ;of} these are pledged .^ew»3ss > '»»r ft ? rI A“y that not behind their brothera v ' v but decidedly in ‘ advance 1 !! theft. sm§^ the seamanYjjnare—the causer as many a commanding office© cnme in the and resolutely MoSr ■ sailors taken the great tempter as it werauby the shoulders, and ; thrOvmhimOverboSirdwithtHe words my r anA tor msipi I will. Have mofWg^to.:dbi with i; y° u; ” $$ ;■ |S|i thousands cksp.U(W©iri and has been ol i vaat national .benefit: - ,v - In ttcpiwmi of ! movements m the Service 4to- % now gamed would„mstSnb,of the casd otlCajK :\ tain 4s*voat& twenty years ago he paid off a l frigate, H.M.S. Satellite, at Portsmouth, when the large number of lO&officersand men | were found to be abstainers, owing to the Captain’s personal f example and influence among them. Another instance Will be found in the noble example of Admiral. ..Sir_sT,„King JM, K.C.B. (then Captain King Hall) commanding H.M.S. Bussell at v Falmouth: finding out, £0 his sorrow, that a vast amount ofjj drunkenness - was going on | among the ship’s company, he too a a sheet of paper and wrote a. temperance pledge .upon it, promising to head iferoJaw own any gut dqwn theirs ; forty immediately sighed. | it, the resuit t% reclamation oJLaJarge number of thfi;wnrst.-9ha)mowito thesbip. The late Commodore Good-1 enough, ;himseS\a.tot»l abstainer for the good of his inen, also took an active part in the work. Admiral Sir 1 JamesSulliyan, K.C18.,; has hebn a staiinch and Earnest supporter of thb cause ; and many others might be mentioned.