PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Evening Star, Issue 12640, 19 April 1907, Page 2

PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Tti? 'iicntlily meeting cf the Society for I’roiecLicn of ',Vom?u and Children took place liie Town Hall afternoon;, prorrvr—the Rev. \V. Curzon-Siggers (in the i ;.M'.sdames Withers. Frv, Wise, Dennisvu”. .11:1 Au^ll. •scuuno business of the meeting: having bt :: i:-t through, and the eecreUiry s report u, wii’i au expression of regret that i m’' was no evidence to lead to the hope, •|;.ii *!v society would not-bo required hr i!U rui’ir?, bur, rathar on the contrary. 'ii o Chairman procaeded ta. refer, to the n:cd of the' Rev. W.'A. Sinc..;;., * ti i expressed appreciation of the great ii. 1 ..p-i daoiis attention Mr Sinclair had iu the work of the society. On the m.m’ u; c i th-? Rev. W. Curzcm-Siggers, it v ” ‘ se-'.red—"That tins society place on rec .1 their profound regret that owing to a k.fakd-.vfii >.:t hoaiiU. chiefly due to many, ‘v service for the benefit of man, the R \ . \\ . A. Sinclair has, by leaving Dunedin, y*ver;:d Lis connection with the. society here. Lnc work done by Air Sinclair in tho inte.?i suiYering imumuity is beyond pruiae, v.TiS ever ready to help and to advise, and WGiild fail iu to express our apprcciuu ii of inn) and his labors. In the work of society he has taken an active interest, :<J- ! t his scivicea liavo been most valuable. Yeir after year this society asked his Couic:*e::oe to continue his stay iu Dunedin, beeatig** iiff vra< such a power for good and G.-u!.l n-t be spared, and new that a Highei iW-or h;s s penmUed his removal to another sphere of il.'Ofuiness, this society wish liim ti-oh-aj'erd. and hepe that lie will be able 1c -train his energetic nature so as to recovei h : s health, and that in due time it may be privilege and gain of Dunedin to have hint anungst us again. The society hope i hat Mr Sinclair may be instrumental in t*sUibhihing a like society in Christchurch/’ li was interesting to know that the report slewed that two cases of reconciliation Had boeu effected during the past month in which the parties had threatened to take divorce proceedings. During the eight years of the society's work they have never countenanced or advised a single divorce, though they had w obtain judicial separation in some very rod vases.