W.C.T.U. CONVENTION.
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, Yesterday. The W.C.T.U. Congress opened this morning. The presidential address was delivered by Mrs. Don, Dunedin, who referred to the growth in membership and the activity of the organisation. She dealt with many subjects. The rage for amusements and pleasure showed an increasing tendency. Week-end trips threatened to become a serious menace to the sanctity of the Lord's Day. Interring to picture allows, she urged that a responsible body should be created in New Zealand to supervise films. Many 01 the pictures now shown were ereatiii" an unwholesome appetite and leading to wholesale moral decrepitude. The State should make provision for the detention of mental defectives. It was appalling to think that abnSrmal girls, who should be under restraint, are mothers of children. In one ease under notice last yewr a defective was the motiiir eight children, who now had to Ik supported by the State. She urged that tho conference should continue to endeavor to ereadicatc the gambling evil.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 6 March 1914, Page 2
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168W.C.T.U. CONVENTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 6 March 1914, Page 2
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