NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 415, 14 May 1902, Page 3

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

PLEA FOB UNIVEBSAL PEACE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Napier, last night. The National Council of the Women of New Zealand to-day passed the following resolutions :—That this Council discussthe question of peaoe and arbitration on May loth, and further that it undertakes to organise peace meetings throughout New Zealand, to take place simultane-

ously on May 15, 1903 an! 1904, and .further, that these meetings, which, together being held under the auspice's of the various National Council, shall constitute the universal demonstration of women on behalf of peace and arbitration, be conducted with the view (a) to concentrating public attention upon these ideals of loving brotherhood which can be realised only by the cessation of national hostilities; (b) to gathering and presenting information respecting the pecuniary cost of war and the moral . consequences and economic sacrifices entailed by it, and (c) to stimulating a desire for peace in the public heart, a faith in its practical possibility in the public mind, and a determination to harmonise actual relations between states with the ideal relations which are now expressed in the phrase “ The fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man,” now universally accepted as a succinct declaration of an actual relationship. That this Council deplores the fact that gambling is increasing among the young people in the colony. It believes that the legalisation of the totalisator has done much to foster the gambling evil in New Zealand. It therefore recommends the societies affiliated to the Council to bri.,,.; the matter of the abolition of the totun=u..o. e.iere their members during the coming year.