WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6685, 25 February 1887, Page 3

WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

The Convention met again yesterday m the Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperanoe HaU. The President, Mrs Dudley Ward, who waa in the chair, opened the meeting w.tn devotional exercises. A letter bearing on Temperance from Mrs Whitehall Smith, one of the leaders of the American Union, was read, and ordered to be printed and circulated throughout ibe wnole colony. It waa agreed unanimously that the vaaon> affiliated Unions be requssted to get petitions signed and presented to Parliament against the employment of barmaids. It waa aIBO agreed by a majoiity that the local Unions send petitions to Parliament anent asylums for inebriates. At the afternoon sederunt ft g»at many letters were read. Several of them were from America, from the leaders of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union m tho Bt»tes. Oae was from Mrs Leavitt, giving an account of her work in Japan. She had spoken twenty-aine times in Yokohama. From Japan she was going to China. Letter# were also received from Brisbane giving an account of the work there. The World Petition was next discussed, and plan of work explained to the Conven • tion by Mr« Ward. By a majority of one vote, tho C invention decided to add the word "National to its title.

The aubjeota of scientific temperance instruction u schools and of tne sale of drink to children were then discussed, the Convention coming to uaanimoiu decisions upon both questions. Mrs MiLLxa gave an interesting account of the work among juveniles in Dunedin. Thereafter the meeting adjourned till the following day at 10 30.