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W.C.T.U. CONVENTION

On Sunday the pulpits of the Napier churches were occupied by visiting delegates to the W.C.'J'.U. Convention; In the evening the convention attended the Methodist Church, where the Rev. Mr. lUchards'preached Hie official sermon. O'.i Monday' morning the report of "the "White Ribbon" editor and the business manager was read and adopted. Mrs. Peryman was unanimously re-elected editor and business manager, and Mrs. Evans associate. In the afternoon Mr. Martin addressed tho convention, seeking its support for several amendments to the Shops and Factories Act, particularly in securing better .conditions for women shop assistants and . for abolishing -the late night. The following resolutions, .were, passed: "Seeing that tho Government has already admitted, through two of its Departments, the Health and Defence Departments, that the ordinary widow's pension is not enough to. keen a mother and her family unless she either, leaves-her young children to the care .of: others, while, she goes to work or else resorts to charitable aid for assistance, we would respectfully urge- upon its attention the necessity for giving all widows with Voung children as a basis of pension not less than' that granted to epidemic widows or .widows of soldinrs.- We would further venture'to point out that it is not in the best interests cither of the individual or the Shte that a mother should have to leave her infant children to the care of others while -she works to supnort them:..nn. the other hand/.if she'daes not do this part of the maintenance of lief fimily.musl ultimatelv Ml upon th» Plate' or the community thrmnih the Education Denartment (charitable aid), and her children have to eirrv a sfgrnn' from this source which it should never have been their misfortune to incur."—Press Assn.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 183, 29 April 1919, Page 4

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W.C.T.U. CONVENTION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 183, 29 April 1919, Page 4

W.C.T.U. CONVENTION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 183, 29 April 1919, Page 4

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