THE W.C.T.U.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 71, 19 March 1912, Page 5

THE W.C.T.U.

ANNUAL CONVENTION. The following official report of proceedings on March loth is supplied to us:— To-day’s proceedings opened with a devotional meeting and afterwards departmental reports were taken on the subjects of “Unfermented Wine,” “Hygiene,” “Press,” “Savings Bank,” “Narcotics,” - “Prison Work,” “Work among Seamen,” “Flower Mission and Relief,” “Mothers’ Meetings,” “Bible in Schools,” “Scientific Temperance Instruction,” “Temperance Sunday,” “Medical Temperance,” and “Purity.” Christchurch Union lately secured the services of a Plunkct nurse to address a mother’s meeting and give practical illustrations regarding the feeding and dressing of the baby. During the year 44 new Maori Unions (have been organised, with a membership of approximately 600 new Maori members. On Saturday there will be a garden party for delegates and friends. OPIUM IN CHINA. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, March 18. At the W.C.T.U. Convention a motion expressing “feelings of profound gric(f, shame and humiliation that, notwithstanding China’s strenuous efforts to free people from the demoralising effects of the opium drug and the pathetic appeals from her people to help them by discontinuing our country for the sake of money still continues to debase and ruin China by cultivation, manufacture and export of the drug to China,” was passed ; also a resolution urging that all ■smoking compartments should be placed either at the beginning or the end of trains. SLY-GROG SELLING. Dunedin, March 18. The W.C.T.U. passed a resolution that when a' person is convicted of sly-grog selling such conviction should carry with it a prohibition order for a year, so that such person should not be able to purchase alcohol in the Dominion.