CONVENTION ENDED

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 4

CONVENTION ENDED

Much Useful Work Achieved

An interesting convention, that of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, has just concluded in Wellington. Much good, constructive work is considered to have been done. A feature was the educational sessions, where various difficult matters were dealt with by expert speakers. Plans of work, specially among young people, were discussed, and new departments set up. Arrangements for the Centennial Exhibition were made tentatively.

A culminating point was reached on Thursday when the convention as a whole went as a deputation, headed by the Dominion president and vice-presi-dent, Mesdames Hiett and Paterson, to Parliament House to meet the Minister of Health, Mr. Fraser. Mrs. Hiett asked on behalf of all present that the Government should take steps to enforce the existing liquor laws. Wednesday brought the convention, the fifty-third to be held, to an end. This year’s gathering was considered by members to be one of the most useful in recent years.

Returned To Wellington Mrs. James Pow, who visited Christchurch this week for the annual meeting of the Townswomen’s Guild there, returned to Wellignton by plane yesterday. Mrs. H. I. Thodey, Wellington, who has been visiting her niece, Miss Gwen Fenwick, Sumner, Christchurch, has returned home. She and Mr. Thodey will leave next week for Australia, where they will spend a few months. Mrs. K. Hume, Oriental Bay, who has been visiting Auckland, left during the week on her return to Wellington via Wairakei and Waitomo.