W.C.T.U. CONVENTION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 147, 16 March 1908, Page 5

W.C.T.U. CONVENTION.

4 : (BY TI-.LICUArn —IT.nSS ASSOCIATION ) ,: -.. . : .Auckland, March 13. . ;'At'> : the . W.C.T.U. ... .Convention,..: .tho" tr.ii report showed a total expenditure by.tho Zealand Union during the 1 year . of • £63.. 125.2 d/ . -Receipts': totalled £131: . 145..113:,' leaving a balanco of £63.25. 9d; . • .Exhibition Bay, Committee reported '. rcccipts"-totalling- ,£lß7i 12s. 7sd.j and ex- - po'nchturo £ISB lis. lid:, -leaving a . debit ' 18s.- 6d.'.. ;It: is expected that this , ; will bo-mado up by sales of curios. and ". photographs.' .. -\ . \ Tho expenditure of some of the looai unions ■and ..according .to figures to haridj-,was:—Receipts, £1509 15s; s£d.; expohditurb,- -£1129-los:- lOd.;; balance; £379 . 19s. 7id. ; : v', Aucklhr.d, March 14. •; This, morning's, session of/i the Women's Christian Temperance . Union's; Convention was dovoted to' the 11 White Ribbon " report. ■Tho ,halance-slieet showed the finances .of tho . paper: to bo, in a satisfactory- condition. Tho editor,: Miss.VL. ; Christcburch, . had resigned, .and Mrs. .Oldham, of Napier, wps 'nomiriate.d for the positipri. : The members of;, the convention.'. Were.entertained by .. .the Auckland-Union at an'excursion, on, the .harbour this-at tornoon. ' . Tho following resolution'was passed, on the motion of Miss M'Carthy":—"Tnat-this public „■ meeting affirms tlie principle of equal pay for equal work, 1 and that in' seeking preferment women should be eligible.for all positions for which they are: fitted on. equal terms with men, and that the time has. come for the removal; of all' civil and political disabilities under which women labour."- Miss Roberts dealt with theccoriomie and other disabilities of married women, and remarked ..that; tho Maws as at. present .existing needed consider- . abls alteration; in -.'the' interests of both husband and wife.- Tlis legislation .required: the judgment; and .deliberation of competent men and women if the home was to be regulated and .protected as'it should be. .The.following resolution was then carried, on the-motion of Miss Roberts That, :in the opinion of this the legal recognition of the ecopmic equality'of husband and wife is desirable for,the attainment of justice and for the furtherance of a truer', marriage relationship; ". < A practically unanimous vote from the convention .members . and. the public was tlipn.-passed; in"'fa'v6ur of the motion.: