CLUBS AND SOCIETIES
W.C.T.U.:—The annual Mothers' Day gathering held under the auspices of the Womens Christian Temperance Union was postponed on account of the thanksgiving service in the Town Hall, and was held in the Pitt Street Methodist Bi-Centennial Hall last Sunday. Mrs J. W. Long, District President, presided. Mr. Keith Rimmer, the guest speaker, gave an address.
New Women's Club.—ln an address on "The Treatment of the Anti-social," Mr. C. L. Gillies said: "There can be no lasting or successful treatment of the anti-social unless it is based on ,an intelligent understanding of all the factors involved in producing the conditions to be dealt with." The community was responsible, he said, for these conditions, which, in addition to individual or abnormal psychological factors, included poverty, bad housing and lack of recreational facilities, also harsh discipline engendering a wrong attitude to authority. The president, Mrs. C. J. Roberts, presided.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 120, 23 May 1945, Page 3
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