A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS

Taihape Daily Times, 25 May 1918, Page 5

A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS

Referring to the duty of women in respect to ' the war, in the course of an address to women and girls at the Auckland Town Hall on Thursday, night, the Rev. J. R. Bur'gin, chaplain;; to • the forces, said that when he returned to New Zealand from France he was struck with the extravagance in dress displayed by women in Auckland, while Queen Street was nightly filled with young girls without escorts. It was not reassuring to think that these were the mothers of the future; He added, "If I were a : woman,. I would go throughout the length and' breadth of New Zealand and telh the people that it rested with the women to determine what the men would be-, come when they returned/' The speaker made a strong appeal, to the large iaudienee to help the lonely young wives whose husbands were absent at the front, and to show that purity of homo life and the sacredness of motherhood was the call of the Empire to the women of to-day.