TEMPERANCE UNION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1410, 22 March 1905, Page 2

TEMPERANCE UNION.

'(Per Press Association. l ). Wanganui, last night. At the Women’s Christian Temperance Union convention superintendents of de- ! partments were elected as follows: Evangelistic, Mrs Ritchie, Edonda’le • Home meetings, Mrs Crump, Nelson - Purity, Mrs Webb, Ormondville ; Educational meetings, Miss M. S. Powell, Auckland ; Sabbath observance. Miss Ninehin, Feilding ; work among young people, Mrs Spence and Mrs Griffin, Blenheim; Maori work, Miss Hughes, Auckland ; Scientific temperance instruction, Miss Maunder Hawera ; Unfermonted wine. Mrs Cumberworth, Ngaire; Hygiene, Mrs Oldham Napier ; Influencing the Press, Mrs Upton’ Auckland ; Mothers’ meetings, Mrs Darjing, Rangiora ; Bible in schools, Mrs Dewar, Auckland ; Narcotics, Miss C E Kirk ; Work among seamen. Mrs Whitby’ Lyttelton; Peace and arbitration, Mrs’ Daldy, Auckland ; Literature, Mrs Hughes; Anti-gambling, Mrs McAlistet Invercargill

Besolutions were passed affirming the necessity for the removal ef the disabilities, civil and political, under which women at present labor, protesting against the delay in tho rspeal of the O.D. Act, urging the Premier to enact legislation raising the age of pratection for girls to 21 years urging the passage of a bill for the protection of children found loitering in the streets at, night, protesting against the employment of barmaids, and urging the abolition of grocers’ licenses. Mrs Atkinson was appointed to repre- I sent the Convention on the Alliance Lx- I eoutive. I The Convention then concluded, '