CONVENTION REMITS

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 3, 1 April 1948, Page 5

CONVENTION REMITS

(Remits were printed in full in February Number.) The following remits were deleted, Vos. 8 and 11. No. 2 was altered to read: “That this Convention views with alarm the pernicious sex literature being imported, and also published in New Zealand, and desires the Government to prohibit the importation and also the publication in New Zealand of this type of literature, as, in its opinion, the social and moral well-being of the younger citizens are adversely affected by it.” No. 13. The Resolution adopted at the World Convention was substituted for this: “Being gravely concerned at the continued wastage of grain and sugar in the manufacture of intoxicants, especially at this time when millions of people are in dire need of food, we pledge ourselves through our National Unions in all countries to protest agains* such wastage, and to urge our Governments to discontinue the use of food materials for any kind of intoxicating drink/’ No. 16. The last phrase of this was altered to read, “And urges that in the interests of common morality the granting of Art Union permits shall be abolished.” No. 10. dealing with the holding of Convention bi-annually, was lost.

All the rest, some in amended form, were carried. An additional Resolution suggested by Mrs. Emery, of the Te Kuiti Maori Union, was “That we urge upon the Government the appointment of specialist teachers in all schools for the teaching of the Maori language, arts, crafts, genealogy, and traditional history "