TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42781, 21 September 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE .

(By Refoumyk.) TEMPERANCE WORE.-IK THE ROYAL NAVY. . 1 • ITSBMEH - .i . As the , honorary agents apaw&^said of some responsible person in the squadron, or on the station, who could' keep them supplied with ordinary necessaries for their wrork. Or#»°glr Jpppm|d by Miss; attached to the Channel Fleet, the Mediterranean,North American and West Indian, East Indian Pacihc,.nnd. .Australian- Squadrons. , The,ie . men,C whenever opportunity <, occurs,..,visit: the honorary agents, mqilire intodthe , work, and gather them together on shore for conference . and / prayer;; and with-.the.aid oBMI Shore Committee, of 1 which we shall presently speak;"’ arrange II meetings, temperance ;pjpwtries, etc*, foiythe : ihen owhetf on leave., These organising agents' have stoted tempqm^so^eties.;: in’ Islands, some of which are -still doing ,a good i woriJ thbre, .'ana also in out-of-the-way places, on • the Pacific Station, t ". Acting in concert with thesei are the ■/ Organising Agentg; Adprekilifoify the future tabe_maiffiiients~ of DmsionaL -'Centi^; 3 ' gentlemen, a goodj position~in civil life, kindly interest themselves in the welfare of the temperance . men while the ships are in port and co-operate with the organ* ising ajgents afloat in getting up temperance meetings, and direct* ing thp men to respectable lodgings, o|r Seamen’s Homes. There of these kind helpers ui ISiu'gpo; Wenchow i and other Chinese ports, Yc^p-: hama;t Bargidoes,. Valparaiso, Sydney, etc are doiflggood servicp to BpyaU Naval;, IVni pera ace-Society. s Itisih’oped th-.t Temperence the ■ v - if proved self Supporting will be started in ni iuy foreign ports by the aid- of these gentle- ; men apd tlieiiV committees, and be iucmculable 4 blessings to the Servicp in the loyr grogshops, which are generally thtf only places our sailors can obtain refreshments iwheh on shore: ACany// officers of the Navy are abstainers some jpledged and_ sojne tinMedgcjd—ats given: their pairies as presidents and ; pi, RpyaL Navalj Temperancnyforfe,funder the Ijeague’s auspices;, Anything | countenanced by ' the bfficerjs is thought* doubly of by the men; and the kind support lately jlent by them has given the yfork. a great pusn forward and not a little raised itHn the j estimation of the Blue