FOR WOMEN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18408, 14 May 1920, Page 3

FOR WOMEN.

W.C.T.U. A. general meeting of the Christchurch Women's Christian Temperance Union was hold on Wednesday, _ Alay 12, Mrs T. E. Taylor presiding. Aim Roberta, president of the Social Hygienic Society, gave a very interesting anil educational address on tho ethical educational and practical aims and objects of the society. Sho dcalfr with matters pertaining to sex hygiene and pointed out that it was necessary, for the benefit of public health, that sufferers from venereal disease should avail themselves of tho free clinics provided in the largo centres. School teachers should ho trained at the Training College in sex hvgieno, to enable them to teach it in tho schools. It was the duty of all mothers to watch thpir children carefully and to instruct them on their natural development. The ethical work of the society was to help raise the moral tone of the community, and to have and create a healthy public opinion to sweep away the double standard and keep tho Hag of purity aloft, ft was most important that tho nation should ho rebuilt on sound healthy lines as its very existence depended alike on its moral, physical and spiritual aspect. Several questions were answered at the close of the address, and a hearty vote of thanks to Airs Roberts was carried by acclnimation.

BANKS—SMITH. On Wednesday, April 28, tho wedding look place at St Barnabas’s, Fendalton, of Miss Gladys Smith, eldest daughter of Air Charles Smith, of Fendalton, to Afr Arthur Banks, second son of Air James Banks, of Templeton. Tho Rev H. S. Leach, assisted by the Rev Canon T. A. Hamilton, performed the ceremony. The church was prettily decorated with white flowers. As the bride had been a member of tho choir for many years, a choral service was .rendered, Aliss J. Black presiding at the organ. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a lovely tiered gown of ivory crepe-de-ehine and ninon, embroidered with pearls and silver, a training embroidered veil, surmounted with a wreath of orange blossoms, and carried ,a shower bouquet of white chrysanthemums and pink belladonna lilies. She was attended bv her two Alisses Beatrice and Dorothy Smith, tho former wearing palo pink crepe-de-chine, embroidered with blue, the lat ter a pale-blue crepe-de-chino embroidered with pinlc. Both wore black panne velvet hate, and carried bouquets of pink chrysanthemums. Air Leonard Banks, brother ot tho bridegroom, acted as man. After the'ceremony a reception was held at the residence of the bride’s parents. Later in the afternoon the nappy left for theft. ' home at Court’s Island, the bride wearing a pale grey gabardine costume, with a very pretty hat of gold lace and beautiful flowers of various colours, frowned with purple velvet. Previous to the marriage St Barnabas’s choir took the opportunity of presenting the bride with a handsome tray of oxidised copper, decorated with enamel-

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