SOUTH DUNEDIN W.C.T.U.

Evening Star, Issue 21718, 12 May 1934, Page 20

SOUTH DUNEDIN W.C.T.U.

Notwithstanding a dull and miserable clay, the attendance at the above meeting on Thursday afternoon in Wesley Hall was good. After preliminary business Mrs Bedford read her report of the recent convention in Wellington. Notwithstanding financial stress on all sides. £390/ has been paid into headquarters’ funds, and the separate brandies are doing useful work with enthusiasm. After traversing the arid plains ot the apparent failure of the Disarmament Conference and the private traffic in arms so largely responsible for that failure, Mrs Bedford referred hopefully to the work of the W.C.T.U. amongst the young. There are 16,074 names on the rolls of the Loyal Temperance Legion and Bands of Hope. There are 2,047 Bands of Hope and 784 branches of the L.T.L., while 2,936 additional children came on the rolls last year. We might see in these numbers of fresh young intellects an oasis in the desert of outworn economic; and social schemes. Mrs Donaldson followed with her monthly report from the National Council of Women, After tea had been served arrangements were made for an executive meeting daring the month.