W.C.T.U. CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 226, 22 March 1912, Page 5

W.C.T.U. CONFERENCE

■' ELECTION OP OFFICERS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Thursday. At the W.C.T.U. Convention Mrs. Pouraumate was appointed organiser for the Maoris. It was decided that the next conference should be held in Nelson. The following office bearers were elected: President, Mrs Cole (re-elected), corresponding secretary, Mrs. Peryman, recording secretary, Mrs. Mitchell, treasurer, Mrs. Bendal. THE CURFEW LAW. Dunedin, Last Night. The following resolutions were adopted by the W.C.T.U. Convention to-day: "That a copy of the Ten Commandments be placed on the walls at all schools; that all cases of maintenance where a husband and wife apply for separation be heard before a magistrate, the public being excluded; that in all affiliation cases before the court the publie should 1 be excluded." The convention nrges the Government to introduce legislation whereby curfew law would be established, rendering it unlawful for boya and girls under 16 years of age to be on the streets of towns and cities after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer unless accompanied l by a jparent or proper guardian or properly authorised if on necessary business. That the convention place on record its deep thankfulness to God for the splendid vote given at the recent licensing .poll for National prohibition, and express satisfaction that we may reasonably hope to see the country soon freed entirely from the liquor traffia. That an elective executive should be instituted and that initiative and referendum be adopted for all important social questions.