W.C.T.U.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1942, Page 3

W.C.T.U.

ANNUAL MEETING. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. There was a fair attendance at the annual meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. The president (Miss Tankersley) was in the chair. Mrs Jansen led devotions, reading a portion of St Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians. After the tea. interval the secretary presented the annual report, which stated that it was pleasing to note a considerable increase in the Cradle Roll department.. Worthy objects such as seamen’s rests m Timaru and New Plymouth, and the scheme for providing a Maori girls hostel in Auckland had received donations from the local W.C.T.U. “Our organisation is not so alone in the field as it used to be,” it was stated. The National Council of Women is making its voice heard against the onslaught of the liquor interests. The New Zealand Women’s Council for Liquor Control organised this year has taken definite'steps towards the drink menace. We can look upon these movements as our allies, and take courage that there is a growing body of women being stirred to definite action in these days of dire necessity for the welfare of our country. We should feel gratified, too, that the Government has taken definite action in regard to the licensing laws.” ' The election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Miss Tankersley; secretary, Mrs H. Speight; correspondence secretary, Mrs Kitchener; treas-' urer, Mrs Vennell; evangelistic superintendent, Mrs Jansen. Miss McKenzie submitted the Temperance fact as follows: “Alcohol, if indulged in as a beverage, will rob the nicest woman and the kindest of men of all true womanhood and manhood, and instead of walking fearlessly across life’s troubled sea they sink in despair. Hence the advice given in the sth chap, of the Ephesians,, 18th verse, is well worth taking.”