WOMEN'S CONVENTION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1696, 12 March 1913, Page 2

WOMEN'S CONVENTION.

_THE TOTALISATOR CONDEMNED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Nelson, Maroli 11. Tho following resolutions were passed at the W.C.T.U. Convention iliis morning:—"That the convention heartily endorses the pledge-taking campaign of the Alliance, and urges upon local unions to try and induco every voter to promise to withold tho vote from any candidate who will undertake to remove or substantially reduce the three-fifths majority." Mrs. Sadlier addressed the convention on "Bible-in-Schools Question." It was resolved that steps be taken to •make it illegal for boys under 16 to be employed by racing clubs selling curds, tickets, etc., on the public streets or elsewhere; that the Government should bo urged to take a referendum whether tho totalisator should be retained or not; that the convention emphatically protests against the disabilities under which women at present suffer in tho guardianship of children, and calls upon Parliament to amend tho law in the direction of giving women equal rights with men, especially in regard to religious instruction; that the convention protest agemst tho i retention of the totalizator, on the grounds—(a) that it gives Government sanction to a vice which is disastrous to social lifo; (b) that it is inconsistent with the numerous enactments against gambling in other forms; (c) that public revonno is derived from a practice which all wiso Governments havo found it necessary to suppress.