W.C.T.U. CONVENTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 March 1906, Page 3

W.C.T.U. CONVENTION.

(Bγ Telegraph.—Press Association.) GKEYMOUTH, Saturday. At the Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention to-day resolutions vere passed expressing thanks t>> Almighty GoJ for the advance of the colesial no-license vote: deploring the fact Ibat so niany good men and women toted for the continuance of the drink traffic.: urging all branches to take up a pledge-taking crusade among men and ■somen: ai-d urging women to set character before politics in the choree of candidates for public office?. The report of the Legal and Parliamentary Department having been read and adopted, the MiiOtring resolution.-- were passed: Affoaing the economic equality of husband ci wife, and the desirability of the fcgal recognition of the same: urging tot scientific temperance for teachers' wrtiticates. and made a compulsory ™ss subject in our schools: urging that s3 =es distinctions enforced in the Factory Act be abolished, these being preja&ial to the economic interests oi *omen: that parents should be obliged jo contribute to the support of their il--Egitiinate children: that failing the alfiity oi the parents, the State should provide for such children; that paternity •sag proved, these children should be ftgiitered. in the name of the father, an equal status with those wra in wedloL-k: that a woman should « appointed as a public officer to disthe parentage of such children, *acre possible, with a view to proiiding w their maintenance: affirming the staple of equal pay for equal work, rati for men and women. It was de- <*& to accept the invitation of Christtjinh for the convention to meet there a 1907.