W.C.T.U.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 88, 14 January 1893, Page 2

W.C.T.U.

•— — : Tho members of the Feilding branch of the above met on Thursday last. Miss Dalrymple presided. - The letter from head quarters re-appointing the President as Superintendent for the Franohise Department for the province of Wellington having been read, the distribution of seventy double forms of petition to both Houses of Parliament was agreed upon, and a hearty concurrence was expressed that every effort be made to have an increase in number of names over those attached to the big petition of last year. Other business then had attention. The subject of the lamentable death of Mrs Wright, under circumstances so peculiarly distressing, was brought forward. A conversational discussion ensued, the general purport of which . was an expression of disappointment that, in the interests of humanity, the coroner's jury had not found it within the province of their duty to make an enquiry as to how the deceased had obtained drink, and that they had not considered it desirable to add a rider to the effect that the person. or persons who had habitually supplied Mrs Wright with intoxicating drinks — for payment or otherwise — were guilty of an infringement of, if not the Licensing Act, the moral law. The following resolution was then carried unanimously :—" That in the matter of the recent death in Feilding of a late resident, by birth and education a lady,members of the local branch oi the Women's Christian Temperance Union, hereby record their feeling of regret that the authorities did not make timely interference to prevent so deplorably sad an end of what otherwise might haye been a useful life, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to each member of the Licensing Committee and the Inspector of Police." The meeting then adjourned. .