LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1941, Page 5

LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

ANNUAL MEETING HELD YESTERDAY TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT'S SERVICES. ADDRESS BY ARCHDEACON RICH. The annual meeting of the League of Mothers was held in the Parish Hall yesterday afternoon. The president. Mrs L. B. Maunsell, presided over a large attendance. The annual report and balance sheet were adopted. Mrs Maunsell was unanimously reelected president for the ensuing year. In proposing Mrs Maunsell as president. Mrs Major paid high tribute to Mrs Maunsell's untiring work in creating a spirit of good fellowship among the members and thanked her for her many years of service to the league. Other officers elected were: Vicepresidents, Mesdames E. J. Rich, D. McNeur. H. S. Kings. Miller Hope; committee, Mesdames J. Blackwood, F. J. Brown. N. H. Prior, F. Taylor, N. Lee. E. G. Norman, A. Corskie, Gaskin, Traynor. J. McGregor, Keltie, T. A. Russell: secretary, Mrs L. Hunter; treasurer, Mrs C. R. Mabson; magazine secretary. Mrs Heyder: card secretary, Mrs N. Lee.

Mrs Miller Hope reported on the work of the choir for the past year.

The speaker for the afternoon was the Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich, who took for his subject "Steadfastness of Character.” words which were embodied in the rules of the League of Mothers. The archdeacon. after pointing out that an annua! meeting was a time of stock taking, of examining their attainments in the past and making plans for the future, said there should be felt a determination to make the organisation better. No success in organisation could compensate for failure in the primary purpose. In normal times they could be content to jog along and not bother about the tendencies which if left unchecked would lead to destruction. But at this moment no thinking person could bo content that all was for the best in this best of possible worlds. This steadfastness of character was needed in their world today, he said. It was this spirit which had raised Mr Churchill to his present position, a spirit which would never know defeat. This character which had meant so much in the history of their nation and in the uplifting of other nations, had not come of itself. Disraeli did not lose sight of the power of the great Christian institutions in forming character. The strength of the nation was not in material progress alone but in the character of its people. Strength of character would not come unless they worked and planned for it. Without strength of character this world would never know security or peace.

Mrs Maunsell thanked the archdeacon for his words of encouragement.

The choir rendered two items and Mrs R. Miller a recitation. The tea hostesses were: Mesdam.es P. Harrison, Thomas. Davis-Goff. Scrivener, Snowsill, Thompson and KentJohnston.

The twelfth annual report, which recorded a membership of 275 members, stated that the following addresses had been given during the year: "Crippled Children League." by Mrs S. N. Kilgour; "The Brailo System, by Mis C. W Kerry; "Home Training,” by Mrs S. Wallis: "War of Ideas," by the Bishop of Wellington, on Father’s Night; “League Fellowship." by the Dominion President. Mrs S. O. English; "The Mission for Seamen," by the Rev. Williams; “Y.W.C.A. Work in China.” by Miss Moncrieff; and “Economic Research,” by Mr A. D. McMillan.