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A. G. Joselin in the chair. <br/>
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<br/>
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letters from Ralph Smith and also one from a repatriated Prisoner of War giving
first hand news of him. <br/>
<br/>
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‘<u>Vice</u>’. He maintained that drinking and gambling in moderation were
harmless in themselves when dissociated from their social evils. In the discussion
which followed members seemed on the whole to favour a life of virtue, being
unwilling thus to separate cause from effect. <br/>
<br/>
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problems which must be considered by those responsible for building the houses
for this generation, she proposed that the only way of meeting all requirements
was to pass a law that no house should be built to last for more than 10 years.
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had largely carried his audience with him along the path of Reason, although some
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