CHURCH OF ENGLAND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2466, 18 February 1893, Page 4

CHURCH OF ENGLAND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.

A meeting was held in the Parish Room, Temuka, on Thursday evening last, for the purpose of establishing a oranch of this Society. There was a large attendance of adults and young eople. The Rev. W. E. Gillam presided, .nd in the course of his address stated that the Society was the largest and Wrongest Temperance Society in England. The objects of the Society were the promotion of habits of temperance, the reformation of the intemperate, and the removal of causes which lead to intemperance. The basis of the Society was union and co-operation, 011 perfectly equal terms, between those who moderately use and those who abstain from intoxicating drinks. He (the chairman) hoped that an adult society on this basis would soon be formed in connection with the parish, but that evening they would start a juvenile branch. In the juvenile section till members between the ages of 7 and 14 were required to take a pledge of total abstinence (the consent of their parents having been previously obtained). After some remarks on the vice of intemperance, he asked the meeting to proceed to select officers and a committee ro work the juvenile branch. The Rev. Mr Butterfield was appointed manager of the Band of Hope; Mr C. A. Opie, Secretary; Committee, Messrs Whitehead, Davey, Wills, Powlesland, Boulter, Radford, and Misses Pill row (2), Sweet, and Timpson. About GO young people banded in their names as willing to become members, and they will be received at the first general meeting to be held on Thursday next. Mr Butterfield then explained the manner in which ho intended to manage the meetings, and after a few songs and recitations had been given, the meeting, which had been hearty and interesting throughout, was brought to a close with the benediction.