MOTHERS' UNION.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 208, 3 September 1929, Page 10

MOTHERS' UNION.

\ largelv attended meeting of the Council of the Auckland Mothers' Union was held in the Bishopseourt library on Monday afternoon, the president, -I ». Averill, presiding. After the financial statement had been read by the diocesan secretarv, Mrs. Simkin, the oiganu-m secretary. Miss Griffin, announced the formation since the meeting in June o f two new branches, and a letter was read from the links secretary in England ieferrinc to the linking up of three more Auckland branches with branches at Home. The organising outpost secretarv, Miss O'Neill, had lately returned from England, where she placed the wreath sent by the Auckland Mothers Union on the grave of the Lnknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey. As wreaths are only allowed to remain m the Abbev for a fortnight it was brought back by Miss O'Neill, and will probably be placed near the soldiers' memorial in St. Mary's Cathedral Church. Miss O'Neill met many prominent members of the Mothers' Union in England, who showed great interest in the work of the union in New Zealand. Requests were made that the Dominion should join in the film production being organised by the parent branch, by sending photographs from various centres, illustrating the extent of the organised work of the union in New Zealand. At the conference of the Mothers' Union in England in 1930 New Zealand will be represented by two delegates, Mrs. Averill and Miss Griffin, and it was decided to leave in their hands the arrangements for a banner for the Auckland branch to be used at the services in the Town Hall on Anzac Day.* The week just past had been of solemn interest to the Auckland branch. The last week in August is specially set apart for the observance of a '•Wave of Prayer" throughout the whole of the Mothers' Union, linking thus; by intercession for each other, the mothers here with more than a million mothers in sll parts of the Empire. Special services were held in most churches in the Auckland diocese, and at St. Sepulchre's in the middle of the week a whole day of prayer was observed. The Mothers' Union is indebted to the Rev. Gordon Bell for the organisation of this work for the union.