W.C.T.U.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 216, 26 August 1927, Page 9

W.C.T.U.

USUAL MONTHLY MEETING.

CONVENTION NEXT WEEK

The usual monthly meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was held yesterday utternoon in the Wesley Hall. Mrs. Banks (president) occupied the chair. Apologies tor absence were received from Mesdnmes Anderson, Kidd, Paul, Fawcett, Ricketts, Blitchfoi’d, Graham and Beunison.

A motion of sympathy in then bereavement was accorded Mesdames Heaton, Warren and Graham. It was decided to tender a reception to the -delegates attending the Hawke’s Bay District Convention to be held in Hastings all day on Thursday next (September Ist)- The reception to be held on August 31st in Wesley Hall commencing at 7.30 p.m., when it was desirous of seeing a large and representative gathering. Mrs. Perryman of Foxton is to be asked to give a short address entitled “Playing the Game.” During devotions a short address was given by Mrs. Hickmott on the parable of the mustard seed. The quotation for the afternoon was taken from R. P. Hobson’s book and concluded with the statement “that alcohol accomplished a world-wide career of deceit and illusion genera tions before the science of chemistry was founded, nnd that science has had to combat and overcome the false teaching of ages.” A paper read on “Anti-gambling” proved to he very instructive. It was stated that in New Zealand in the last 12 rears the money spent bad risen from £2.000.006 to £lO, 000,000. which was about four times ns much ns flint recorded in Great Britain where the figures ran out to about £2 per head per year for the population.