FAMOUS TEMPERANCE LECTURER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 90, 8 April 1902, Page 2

FAMOUS TEMPERANCE LECTURER.

Miss Florence Balgamw, who is aorta, South Australia, is expected to TwU the chuf towr<s in New Zealand it to* conclusion of her Australian campaign. She was born at Scarborough in 1866. Her father, Mr Robert Balgaroie, a Scotchman, was for thirty six yeaesa prominent citizen and Congregational minister of Scarboiough, Yorkshire, I" the queen of watering places," *■* : subsequently a missioner to nearly ell ; denominations. Miss B ■lgsrnie wa» educated there, and in London and in Germany. Unable to go to Cambridge she resolutely studied at heme, j and paste.) the higher local Cambridge [ examinations with first elasa honour* |in French and German, and second [class honours in political economy and logic. In the last tire subjeots she waf placed next to Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of the late Mr W. E. Gladstone. Her first work was organising University extension lectures is Scarborough in co-operation with Mr H. O, Molton, of Cambridge, now professor of Chicago University. So sucnsssfal wag this centre that the Cambridge University Syndicate adopted tho Scarborough methods as a model. She was next invited by the Men's Liberal Four Hundred to stand for the'Searborough School Board, and she served in this capacity until she went op to London to act as secretary to the Woman's Suffrage Society. In this capacity she (organised and lectured for six y«ut ■, and then went over to America as a delegate to the Women's Council in Washington, from the Suflngo and the British Womena' Temperanoa Association. She remained in America for over a year, travelling from New Tork to San Francisco. O/i her return in coo junction with Lady Henry Somerset and women's organisations, she set about scouring factory reform in England, and has been successful is, many places. While in Amerioasa* spent six weeks in travelling through prohibitive Kansas, and came bade Lome a convinced prohibitionist. Since then, as a member of the Consultatifo Oouaoil of the United Kingdom Alliance, and a speaker for that body, she has done good work, On several occasions she has been invited to organise women on temperance lints; twice notably at special municipal contests in Glasgow, and last yetr in Edinburgh, where she worked in oonjunotion with that prince of temperance' adroeetes, the Rev, Leon*rd Isitt, Fur *ome years she was superintendeit of the political department of M»« British Women's Temperance Assoc ation, *nd is no* president of Mutwell Hill branch. She is on the Executive Committee of the English Womea's Liberal Federation.