W.C.T.U.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 209, 2 March 1912, Page 4

W.C.T.U.

At the social for temperance workers an opportunity was taken to wish Miss ■ Ambury a pleasant holiday and to present her with a.small token of their Ipve and esteem. Mrs. Douglas, in the ao-l sence of Mrs.'Lewis, president of tjhe u Women's Christian Temperance Union,; presented Miss Ambury with a black J silk-velvet wrist bag, containing a "puree' and a gift of sovereigns, and- in speaking of Miss Ambury's whole-hearted- ans - consistent work for nine years past, said; / "such work as this can never be bought ;' U it is always given." >Mr. G. H. Maunder, secretary of the'"' No-License League, in endorsing all that had been said of Miss Ambury's- valuable work in the temperance cause, said; he had found that whoever else had failed in duty, Miss Ambury had never done

When thanking the friends for their kind thought of her, Miss Ambury said she had worked to help others' largely because her gratitude for Heavenly blessings to herself compelled her to do so. |' On the same evening, Mrs.Appleyard " presented to the New Plymouth Union ' a large and handsomely-framed photo-'j.i , graph of herself and five other ladies who f J had been members of the first union, / t which was organised in 1885. and with'.: 'it £l, which is intended to be the J nucleus of a fund- for providing head-.i ■ quarters for the W.CT.U. Mrs. Douglas","!} ; on behalf of the. union,. thanked Mrs. Appleynrd and the friends'' who had lorn- . bined with her to give the picture and money to the present union. It was appropriate that the gift came so near the > Frances Williard Memorial Day, which is the day set apart by Whit* Ribbonera to keep in remembrance the"'* noble works of this great and good woman. 1