BAPTIST CONFERENCE
ELECTION OF OFFICERS. ANTI-GAMBLING RESOLUTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Delegates from Baptist churches in Wellington, Nelson. Hawke's Bay and Taranaki met at Lower Hutt over the weekend for the annual central auxiliary meeting. Officers were elected as follow:—President, the Rev. L. A. North: vice-presidents, the Revs. J. Russell Grave. E. W. Batts and Mr H. W. Milner; lion. secretary, Mr Will Carey; hon. treasurer. Mr C. Collins. A resolution was carried expressing ihe unanimous conviction that the prevalence of gambling constituted a serious menace to national fife and noting with particular shame the resort to gambling in the interests of patriotic funds, calling upon people to abstain absolutely and urging that all responsible for raising patriotic funds should novel' again sanction the using of streets for gambling in the interests of the cause. A resolution was also passed declaring that the use of intoxicating liquors wasted national resources.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 6
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152BAPTIST CONFERENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 6
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