W.C.T.U.
RESOLUTIONS OF CONVENTION. By -Telegraph—Press Association. Palmers ton, Sept. 9. The W.C.T.U. Convention has decided to thank the Minister of Education for his promise to introduce scientific temperance teaching in schools and place on the records his efforts to secure special teaching for backward children. Resolutions were passed that the convention urges upon the Minister of Justice the need of establishing a home, other than a prison, for young women - offenders; that it urges upon Parliament the necessity of placing ordinary widows' pensions upon the same basis as epidemic widows' pensions; that the Government be urged to press the bringing'into effect of the Legislative Council Reform Act, allowing women entry to the Council on the same terms as men.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1920, Page 5
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