IN THE FIELD.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 254, 18 August 1916, Page 10

IN THE FIELD.

On July 7th I arrived at Hltham to pay my final visit to that Branch, and on the Sunday afternoon went around to the Salvation Army, Methodist and Presbyterian Sunday Schools, talking up the proposed L.T.L. On Tuesday night 1 had a talk to the girls in the Oddfellows’ Hall, and at the close slipped upon the polished Hour and broke* a rib, which handicapped me somewhat. On the 14th we had a meeting of the Onion, the attendance being very good. Sonic 1 days were spent in visiting Hawera, and on 20th T. E. Taylor Day was commemorated, and a collecton taken up for the Organising Eund. For many months Mrs Crabb, Palmerston District President, had been in communication with Marton, and on Friday, 21st, Mrs Scott having kindly promised hospitality, I journeyed thither, and after spending several days in visiting, organised .1 hram h in the* Coronation Hall on August ist, with 26 members, the* officers li>t new being yet complete. I shall lie 1 able to visit them again. Next day I left for Hawera, where I arrived in “a gale and a half*’ of wind, accompnn ed b> rain, hail and snow. As all the 1 taxis vveic promptly taken up by young men, it was “a drowned rat” that Mrs Brow ne received as visitor, espec iallx as, in the darkness, 1 had twice splashed into several inches of Hood water. Next day Mrs J. J. Patterson sent the motor and conveyed me to her hospitable home at Manaia. M S. POWELL, Dominion Organiser. Address until August 41st: P. 0., Te Kuiti; then P. 0., Hamilton.