DRINK AND THE NAVY.
AN AUCKLAND FUNCTION.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. „.™ £i"™ary of the establishment oi tne .total Abstinence Society was celebrated to-night by a banquet tendered to Admiral Kin, Hall, Who said he attended to show his sympathy with the temperance movement, but he waa not associating himself with the political asyect. He referred to drink and its effect on the efficiency of the navy, ffc was most important at the present day t« maintain the utmost limit of efficiency, and the man behind the gun had to be tuned up to the greatest degree of efficiency. ' The Prime Minister said that our existence as a nation and an Enipire depended on the naval defence of the overseas Dominions. We should spend more on naval defence than in the past. Tho yearly contribution of New Zealand towards the navy was £250,000. including interest on the cost of a battleship, but if the battleship was paid for to-morrow the contribution would not be decreased,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 162, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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166DRINK AND THE NAVY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 162, 26 November 1912, Page 5
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