CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS
The following resolutions were carried at the Convention : That where children are allowed to sell raffle tickets in aid of school funds, the attention of Education Boards he called to the fact that the practice is illegal. As the Department of Health is giving advice through the newspapers re the danger of smoking while young, the Department he asked to draw attention also to the danger of the use of beverage alcohol. That the Executive of the W.C.T.U. strive urgently and continuously to secure the privilege of broadcasting Temperance instruction as is permitted in Australia and U.S.A. That a strong protest be made against the continued rationing of sugar while so much is being wasted in New Zealand in the manufacture of alcoholic drinks. That building materials should not be used for constructing hotels when the housing problem is so acute. That W.C.T.U. strongly protest against any proposal urging the Government to establish a National Lottery. That provision of -40-hour week be applied to hotel bars. That there is urgent need for the establishment of a Chair of Psychiatry in connection with our Medical School.
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White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 June 1946, Page 8
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187CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 June 1946, Page 8
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