WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN UNION.
WIDOWS' PENSIONS. At the usual meeting of the 'Auckland District Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the subjects'of widows' pensions was discussed, and it was decided "to urge che Government to deal with the ordinary widows' pensions this session; and futher urge that they be placed on the same basis as the epidemic widows' pensions in order that there may be no necessity for a mother to either leave her young children to go ont to work or to have to resort to charitable aid for assistance." The meeting expressed pleasure at the decision of the Returned .Soldiers' Association to vote against liquor being sold in their clubs. A letter was received from the Patriotic League thanking the members of the Union for their work at .the Soldiers' Club during the time It has been in existence It was decided that the District Convention should be held at headquarters on November 12. The meeting approved a congratulatory telegram to be sent to the Premier on the SfpKf ° f c bill to "How women to sit t_rY_VS e « 1 ' an £ erasing the hope thax __e L _.__;f Te Council would * raDt the
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 253, 24 October 1919, Page 7
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192WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN UNION. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 253, 24 October 1919, Page 7
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