TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42790, 12 October 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

-- t r/s-; (By Eepoeher.) TEMPERANCE WORE • IN; THE ROYAL NAYY. ; .. ITS RISE if-®;,' v. 3 Coffee Canteens pure; and simple are, as a matter of course, mnch easier to start and manage. Through the kindness :of an officer on board H. Id. S. Indus - we are supplied with the following information respecting one which seems to be doing :good : work. He states: “This coffee canteen was opened - on speculation—not to make money,but simply to provide men with coffee who did not care for beer. The apparatus cost about 305.; and with milk oans, measures;, etc., the total cost was about 50s, One man, a marine, is told off to to make the coffee, and issue it in the presence of a committee of three petty officers, who at the close of the eY«tt«Ag-ivftgn abook, shoeing the amount, of coffee, milk and sugar that has been expended, and the number* of pints and half-pints that have been issued; The Marine does light duty in the ship, as well as look after the stores, etc. The’ price charged is IJd. per pint, or Id. per half-pint; and in seven months, after paying all,expenses there was a surplus of from £6 to £7. The usual amount taken daily is from 3s. to ss. The great secrej; of success is, that the men have a stand off time of a quarter of an hour between 9 and 10 a,m., at which time a cup of coffee is very acceptable to all hands. It is also to be had in the evening, although a beer canteen olose beside it

somewhat interferes with the/ trade then.” ,/' ///|ff| The chaplain of H. M, S. Cambridge has elicited, the following valuable information regarding a coffee canteen onsboaid that ship. We cannot do better „ than give the question, and his kindaiswers verbatim:— 1. How was the Coffee Canteen started ? “ A committee was formed of petty officers of the, ship, who undertook to make and sell the coffee ; the accounts and money are kept by an officer.” . 2. How many men are needed/ to work it ? ‘As a rule two of . the committee are present during the sale of coffee—one to serve/ it, the other to receive and keep/ accounts of the money. For the actual working of the boiler, one man is quite sufficeirt.” 3. How much money was/ required to start it ? and /Whafi apparatus is necessary ? ‘‘The, original boiler cost £2 45.; a bag/ of charcoal costs 35., and lasts:; about sixty days. Coffee is Is/2d., and sugar 2d. a pound/ Nothing was paid for' until, sufficent money had been made : by the sale of coffee. The; above is all the apparatus necessary for starting the affair.