WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
4 % ANNUAL CONVENTION. (rRESS ASSOCIATION* TELEGItAM.) TTMARU, Marcli 1-1. At the W.C.T.U. Convention this morning 80 dolegates were present, including two from the Maori Unions and 13 from tho Young Women's Union. The corresponding sccrctary stated that the roll now totalled -1834 paid-up members. Tho treasurer reported that the receipts were £628 Is 7d, and the expenditure £313 los lOd. Tho president (Mrs Don), in lier: address, referred to tho progress of temperance by vote and by national compulsion, as a war measure, in Canada and the United States, and said she regretted tho inadequate action in this direction in Britain. She expressed thankfulness for the six o'clock closing of hotels, and urged the necessity for the total abolition of the traffic, especially in the interests of returning soldiers, strained 'in body and mind by the war. A general election this year should see no-liccnso carried at the pall- I
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16161, 15 March 1918, Page 2
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