TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42782, 23 September 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

<Bt Bsfobksk) I TEMPERANCE WORE la THE ROYAL NAVY:-1 ITS RISE I It may be interesting to mentiol here that two branches of til Royal Naval Temperance Socie|| went to the Arctic regions witl the eipection of 1875. Befoil the sailing of the ships Aleil and Discovery, Miss Weston asked permission, on behalf ol theNatiohalTemperahceDeagul through Adirmal Sir Leopoll McClintook, to be, allowed t| card! on board each ship in the hand] of a total abstainer. It wal granted, several names wer] epoUedj-anil Adam Ayles, whl took charge of the book Henna Petty, and W.Malley, caml back having kept their pledgl intact, and were living witneise! that even in the Arctic region] drink is hot necessary, Wl cannot help, feeling that thJ Arctic Expedifcionbf -1-875*6 ha] done gr&t and the .. temperance cause, ThJ work among the Tratfhmg Ship! Impregnable, fmplai»ble, Vincent, Ganges, ahd is not the least h™e| Thewwe u miralty, of allowing ho strongl drink of any kind bo the M| Hi training,iis a good stepping-stonJ for the inculcation of temperanca truth. A very large number ofl the boys in H. Mi training ships] are enrolled as abstamers, and] keep their pledges after they are! drafted intothe Service asordirw ary seamen. An average of 20u names are on the books ;butj allowing for those who break! their pledges when rated as mein the number, if kept up and in-] creased, must exercise a great] v f! f on the Navy. Devons ;: J rlur h vi-i-,quarter of the] iraimug Service; and at thm Sailors’ Rest, where the boys] come weekly in hundreds,several] thousand have enrolled theiif] names. At this Institute there is a voluntary -attendance of ; two and three hundred] ujys at itie Sunday afternoon] meeting; and during the week] temperance meetings are] heartily relished! and joined ;ii£ by the boys, have been held! when they are asHbre. By these means, joined to personal in-] fluence, many of the boys have become;;; not only sober and steady, but decided. ads* ■ : • »■■■:]