W.C.T.U.
ANNUAL SESSION. By Telegraph.—-Press Association, Auckland, March 22. The business session of the 32nd Dominion Convention of the W.C.T.U. opened to-day. Mrs. Dow (president), in her address, dealt with the progress of temperance reform in various European and other countries, and stated that the third petition to Parliament on the question of curtailing the liquor traffic would be presented next session. She also advocated tiie establishment of women police. - '' Eighty-nine delegates and ten proxies _v'era present, " The treasurer's report showed a credit balance of £B6 Ss 7d, against la«t year's £B2 Ss Id. The number of I unions is S3 (82), and the membership I 3C39 (3333). '
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1917, Page 8
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