TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42778, 14 September 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

(Br thw infos V- f - TEMPIRAHCE WOR&BF THE ROYAL NAVY. Y*, ITsJ®; J ; To these early work©® abodyofjDwnvwhose::names are unrecordedf- we* .©we the sowing of seed which, we doubtless are reaping now. At length* about ’ 1863, a most important movement took place: a$ band .of 'Ms, vpqt msmsim i ■ H. M. S. Reindeer, during her long commission^—lß63 to 1868 on the Pacific Station The work'so quickly on stoa|fly and surelyauring the whole bf; the * cruise; and when eventually the ship u Fas paid 1 off: * in 1868 at Portsmouth, iit was found that as many, as forty had . . joined {the association, andi (i Had kept thjeir pledges. Timaltwill he that this important v <*i movement took' place 0 ana, not without the Berviee.as some pave supposed; and we would 1 .• draw ‘ particular • ■ attention to this' point,' bed&uSß v ; it is th? IgU Works revolves, and which under r \ for cits imanrelldus Before theV members ' > 'Reindeer Sociel^- £jj their homes in i variousnp&rtS -of :f the country,was a farewell gathering should vb®/ • held. This tpok ! ‘-ftaee: at Trevelyan Hotel, Portsmouth’— words of the retfiy,! cold collation was. served,and a very pleasant time was spent by all.” Thh supper was provided out of the funds of the, Reindeer Total Abstinence Society, and commenced at 7.p. ml After supper Lieutenant A. if. O’Rorke yR: H., catted _ the members together, and. r presented each sfiUiAselid silver funds, b®UritigibH £s^| < H. M.; Si Reindeer,; ploughing* . . through let go her! life-buoy, other the words, i‘Reiadeer ; Totel.c Abstinence Society:- institutedJuly 186$. V ,"It ; ?was» on this memorable occasion that ,tbe\ Ptoyal HavabTemperahce sprang Into life! Before separa~ - ing, all unanimously agreedthaP the work, so well commenced must apt: be :to go; to. pieces ; and a cpmiuittee cf officers, seamt n, and. ; gentlemen iCpnnected with the Service .in. Portsmouth was appointed, in thoroughly business-like- style, add thus, on the dispersion of the ship’®;'company the""matter iwas Ibftin trustworthy and zPalousjhands.