LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1937, Page 18

LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

PAST YEAR'S WORK

NEARLY 5000 MEMBERS

The annual report of the League of Mothers, Wellington Province, which will be presented at the annual meeting next week, shows a most encouraging progress in membership, there having been an increase this year of 579, making nearly 5000 members in the province.

Great credit is given to the provincial president, Mrs. H. W. Kersley, for her continued and ' enthusiastic interest in the league which has gone so far in securing its success. She has addressed so many meetings and "chaired" others, her work having .been most valuable. Miss Richmond's work for the magazine is also mentioned with deep appreciation, and the fact that she and her workers have made the magazine so attractive is given as a reason why there should be more than 1162 subscribers.

A meeting was held of treasurers and magazine secretaries when the provincial executive met them and discussed various financial problems, the meeting being informative and successful. Thanks are tendered to Dr. Doris Gordon for her address to the combined town branches on the question of abortion. The fact that 400 attended the meeting showed the interest taken in the subject. If is mentioned that the league keeps in touch with the Mothers' Union through the delegate, Mrs-. G. C. White, and It has also a delegate on the National ' Council of Women. It is mentioned also that Stokes Valley members decided to leave the institute movement and form a branch of the league. The resignation of Mrs. Jenson as organising secretary there was received with regret, and Mrs. R. Y. Collins was. welcomed as her successor, and congratulated on haying established a branch of the league at Upper Hutt. .-. Thanks are expressed to many speakers who gave excellent addresses, to the Press, to the' Y.W.C.A., to branch presidents, office-bearers, and numerous choirs and vocalists who provided so much pleasure at the meetings. The balance-sheet, as usual in women's organisations, shows a small credit balance, although there was not much money at the disposal of the treasurers.

The branches include Brooklyn, Carterton, Eastbourne, Featherston, Greytown, Hataitai, Johnsonville, Karori, Island Bay and Berhampore., Kelburn, Kilbirnie and Lyall Bay, Khandallah, Levin, Lower'Hutt, Masterton, Miramar, Moera, Melrose and Houghton Bay, Ngaio, Palmerston North, Petone, Seatoun, Selwyn, Stokes Valley, Upper Hutt, Wadestown, Wanganui, Wellington Central, Wellington South, Lighthouse branches, Maori and scattered branches.