W.C.T.U.
MEETING IN MASTERTON. PROGRESS OF INSTITUTION, A very good attendance met in the McLaren Room of Knox Church yesterday afternoon. Miss Tankersley presiding. Mrs Jansen led the devotions. Mrs Brewer (Wellington District President! was welcomed to the meeting and gave a most interesting report of the Dominion Convention held during March in Invercargill. She said that, the W.C.T U. first began to function in New Zealand in Invercargill in 1844, and here too the first Y branch was formed. The W.C.T.U. stall at the Exhibition had been well maintained by donations and pei sonal supervision. Temperance material for school journals would very soon be at the disposal of the Education Department. As far back as 1887 an inspector recommended temperance text books for use in schools. Several unions showed a splendid increase in membership. Mrs Brewer was accorded a vote of thanks for her report and was entertained to afternoon lea before her departure. Mrs Sims supplied the Temperance fact as follows: “Alcohol is one of the most common causes of insanity, epilepsy, paralysis, diseases of the liver and stomach, dropsy and tuberculosis,’’ according to Dr. Freak Peterson, formerly President of the New York State Committee on lunacy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1940, Page 8
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