TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42785, 30 September 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

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TEMPERANCE WORE IN* It H»|tafced League most generously (implies mß*s» Society hare felt—and rightly—a>tli« Jeagae 4m#fdem ilPgif wosg. th© leasf: that; the* ...Service, cando is d#-hpp tneli^ue. L^year' r jjMisfl Weston, a Christmas ißofcj.- collection was apd; the’ handsome sum <$ £B2

IQs ffdwas collected by officers and men, as the Js9yhl Navy**a in-grateful acknowledgment ;of4he£gr@at work whi sh the League had do ne, and is st 11 doing, among them and we hopb asMiss Weston says, M that this Morirdm ra 3as|Tfidclter, ” which ,hap been so .willingly offered,Jmay notf Oiily:-induce our but‘.may organizations,, also 'nobly

by -the League, to ifdlow -the British TJ flag-in c ihis respect. ” An . in additionito theemblaganedeards ■ . has bLeen ? „;M®^tlii£ f in the ,flhape, ;of j.Silv©r.cbMedalß. v; of-thoste when she -paid off r in 1868. and ■mmk offi^rpK^nd^m^^stftEtodoiihui;.. •<* «*pil themedCMlMpTOwnl overhoard to reSoue thudrowning seamen.; on the” reyefse adaiiirel wreath, w&;;-j(go i ,iDssripfion “ lioyabvNavalv temperance - National oF|||ppf|nce League. K- M.;f ; I hese medals, are presented to men whq on the bookt lor. uv¥^years in the Semce;. those who have continued abstainers ten. ypars ' receive a medal and and a clasp is&dded for eyery five years; so:that ti a man jeave the Service, after .twenty/years with a medal, landthree clasps. But in all cases the pledge must have-been - signed in the Service taspe allowed peipg that, of sickMssf dridePmedieal 'certificate. A small silver medrfm presented to those bbss%ho nave become teetotalers inuthe apd who on joining a' sea-going ship have continued staunch to itheiibpromise, without taking up their grog for at.ileast-AWelve months* —These medals, disto stiraulateto the steady keepiogof dhe-jiledge, ; Knd dte'inuch Taluedbyth»ttSn.