W.C.T.U.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8104, 26 March 1906, Page 5

W.C.T.U.

GREYMOUTH, March 24. At the Women's Christian Temperance Convention resolutions were passed expressing appreciation at the advance of the Colonial Nolicense vote from 3,000 to 15,000, and deploring the fact that so many good men and women voted for the continuance of the drink traffic; and, also, urging all branches take up a pledge of making a crusade among men and 'women, and urging the wo i>en to set character before politics in the choice of candidates for public offices. The report of the legal and parliamentary department being read and adopted, the following resolutions were passed:—(l) Affirming tha economic equality of husband and wife, and the desirability of the legal recognition of the same; (2) arging that scientific temperance instruction be included in the examination for teachers' certificates and made a compulsory olass subject in our schools; (3) urging that all sex distinctions enforced in the Factory Act be abolished, these being prejudicial to the economio interests of women; (4) affirming the prinoiple of equal pay for equal work both for men ana women. It was deoided to aooept the invitation of Christohurch for the convention to meet there in 1907.