VICTORIA LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 152, 16 March 1918, Page 10

VICTORIA LEAGUE

CONCLUSION OF CONFERENCE. By Telegraph-Press Association. Christchurcti, March 15. At tho Victoria League Conference to-day the 6pccial committee set up to consider the best means of extending tho membership made the following recommendations, which were adopted: (1) That each member .should be urged to bring in ono or more new members during tho year; (2) that the lantorn slides sout out by tho parent league should be used to attract new members; (3) that Empire Day, May 24, should be made a rallying day through-, out the Dominion, special arrangements to bo made for speakers in the various centres; ('!) that the organised pisting and patriotic war leagues should be requested not to disband at tlie end of tho war, but join this league en masse.

The committee further reported that it was in smypathy with the proposal to provide a New Zealand Victoria League aeroplane, and recommended that tho matter be referred for favourable consideration to the respective local councils in each district.

The advisability of introducing the work of tho league into tho schools in greater measure tlian was done at present was considered. Members expressed the opinion that the league might interfere with the good work of the Navy Lenpie, and it was decided to reach the children through communicating with the Teachers' Institute, and publishing literature "on Empire matters in the "School Journal." It was decided that tho next conference bo held in Auckland in April of next year.