Hockey.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 163, 15 June 1901, Page 3

Hockey.

A committee meeting of the Wifimute Hockey Club was held last evening at the residence of Mr G. J. Goldslone. Piesent—Kev. McKenzie Gibson (president, in the chair), Berry (captain), Goldstons. Simms, Beeves, George (secretary), Manchester and Goxon (vice capafiu). A loiter was read from the Sydenham Club, iuvifing a team from Waimate to play a match against the Sydenham and Addington combined Clubs at Chrinchurch on the 22nd inst.

S.un ) discussion ensued as to the difficulty in gelling a team away, and it was decided to write to the Fowler, asking him to make one of the team.

On the motion of Mr C- J. Goldstone, seconded by Mr G. Manchester, the secretary was instructed to inform the Sydenham club that Waimate will accept their invitation. The secretary of the Timaru club (Mr G. Wilson) wrote, stating that a team from Timaru would play Waimaie on July 4th on the grounds of the latter.

It v as decided to defer consideration of this correspondence to a future meeting. The President intimated that Mrs McKenzie Gibson had offered to pro vide refreshments on the occasion of a match being played at Waimate. Opinion was expressed that, in view of the forthcoming match against Sydenham and Addington, some more organised play should be praised to enable the team to play with combination, and all members of the club are requested to roll up to practice on Thursday next, when the first eleven wiM play all comers. A vote of thanks to the chair ended the mooting. ,

substantiates, these opinions. We believe that internuerence and consequent uuthrift ate the most prolific sources of pauperi&en. The Economics of Drink.

But drink in its relations to pauperism is only a part of the "'wider question, the Economies of Drink. It seems on the face of it inevitable that this country must be the poorer, and its revenue-producing caprcity must be diminished, by the annual expenditure of two million pounds in drink. But iu addition to this, we have to take into account the increased public expenditure in dei ling with crime and sickness occasioned by the drinking of the people, and the loss of time and decreased capacity in the drinkers. It seems reasonable to suppose that the liversion of £2,000,000 annually into , channels of legitimate trade and commerce would produce conditions in' which the people would be better clothed, housed, fed and educated, arid iu which influences wou'd be more refinirig and ennobling. The changed habits of the people would create a demand for labour in - every department of legitimate industry, and arrest the waste of wholesome food and the exportation of money now lost in the manufacture and importation of beverages at least not necessary to health and healthful enjoyment.. Economically, nothing can be said in favour Of the use of intoxicating beverages, while very strong reasons may be urged’ for the disconrinuace of their use. Ail evidence shows that the absence of drinking habits among the people creates comfort in the homes and ever-increas-ing capacity to sustain the public funds of the country. {To he continued,)