WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
CONVENTION AT WELLINGTON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. The Women's Christian Temperance Union Provincial Convention opened today, Mrs. Crabb presiding in the absence of the president (Mrs. W. A. Evans). Mrs. Crabb, in her address, emphasised the necessity of loyalty to the union in connection with the war funds. The secretary's report showed steady progress in the work of the union departments and the Red Cross. Canvassers reported that the petition to close the bars at 0 p.m. was favored by a heavy majority of the general public, and if there had been moi<; time thousands more signatures could have been obtained. A deputation was appointed to wait on the* Minister of Education to urge fuller scientific temperance teaching in schools. It was resolved that the convention earnestly requests the Minister of Defence, in view of the examples of total abstinence for the duration of the war set by his Majesty the King, to order that, should circumstances ever again oecur inducing the medical or military authorities to order general alcoholic stimulants, such stimulants as hot soup, coffee, or tea shall also be forwarded and offered to every man.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19150902.2.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1915, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
193WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1915, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in