TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 110, 27 May 1901, Page 2

TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.

(PBR PBKSS ASSOCIATION ) Palmebston Nokth, May 24. A Convention of 200 d-1-gat-s representing temp ranee ocie-ies and churches of Wt-I'.ingto'-, Hawick's Biy, and Tararcaki, met here to day. Two public mee'.iugß were held in thtbeakro, and spseches the Revs. F. W. Isitt, Hammond, Haddon, Tres'raill, VvM*, D.iwnon and Coekrr, Dr. Newman sni Messrs A. R. Atkingin and F. Piwni, M.'sH.R. Tho C nvention pissed resolutions in memoriam of Qua* n Vicfcirk and ex pieising to Ki' g Elwari VII.; weleome to tho Duke ai d Duchies of Cornwall; and appreciation of services to temperance by Lirds Roberts, Wol»eliy, ard Kitchener, i The prop~sei Licensing Bi'l was cou I si lered, and all nlterstion-i E'ecloral rights we r e approved, and resolutions concerning the evasion of duty by Joe police and inadequate psnalties for drunkonufss were pissid.

Palmbsston North, M->y 25. Tlie Convention c'o «-d to day Resolutions passed this morning approved of special missions fo;" prohibition; advomting that ou lung distr'c s should receive special attention from lee urers; that a special effort be m -do ta pro'ect Taihape, Kiftilii, O'takune, and U'iku diatri'-t-K from invasion by the l'quor traffic ; that a pledge signing cruside ba tommeocf>d on behalf of Maoris; that; tbe public be urg'd to refrain from sanctioning th« usa of in'oxicaots at recep'ions to returned trooper* from South Africa; that the Defence Department b* a c ked to forbid the 8-In of liquor at volunteer encamp - men's; that temperance char's be issued to the public schools; that a dep'itttion wait on t v e Minister for Education and urge the of rom-pu's-ry scientific t aching in s'lbcol".