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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8067, 24 March 1906, Page 2

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t ■ • IN CONFERENCE. , PPB TBBSS ASSOCIATION. s GBEVMwrK, March 23, . At the WAT, Union lo4ay, Mis s L. M, Smith, having been reappointei j editor of the "White Ribbon," and Mr I H. Hill business manager, a resolutioi . was passed heartily thanking Mia Smith for the excellent work done b; . her. It was resolved; Tbat we eni , phatieally protest against the Colonia Secretary iu granting charters fee in, I sale of intoxicating liquors to Clubs a , Mastertou, Feildiug, and H'astiugs , when all these, districts record i majority yute in favour wf uo-licc-nse that the Imperial Government b< urged officially to diseouutenanee the trafllc in opium; . Mrs Whitby's rejiort of work among seamen showed that the Ditncdin and Tinuiru Unions own the Sailors' Rests, ami their respective district reports of home meetings was received. Mrs Webb presented the report of Purity Work, very favorable. accounts being given of the.'work of Mr G. H. W. HJjgh, An able paper entitled '.'-Women ou Charitable Aid Ronrds," was read. Miss Robei'i moved, and the Confcrcucc carried a resolution aftlrming the desirability of public institutions for the c-nre of men, women and chihlwn, beiug governed by B,oari|s wmposod of both men and women j that separate homes should be established where men and women, destitute of sexual control, may bo detained and cured for mentally and physically, aud that suoh homes should be in the country, where rural occupation* could be provided.