W.C.T.U.
ANNUAL CONVENTION. (United Press Association.) GISBORNE, This Day. The W.C.T.U. Congress opened this morning. The presidential address, delivered bv Mrs Don, of Dunedin, referred to the growth of membership and the activity of the organisation, and dealt with .many topical subjects—wages, amusements, and pleasure. It showed that the increasing tendency of week-end trips threatened to become a serious menace to the sanctity of the Lord s Day. Referring to picture ,shows, she urged that a responsible body be created in | Nc# Zealand to supervise films. Many of the pictures now shown were creating art unwholesome appetite, leading to wholesale moral decrepitude. The State should make provision for the detention, of mental defectives. It was appalling to think that abnormal girls, who should ; be under .restraint, are mothers of clil--1 dren. In one case under notice last yenr a defective was the mother of eight children, and was now supported *,y the State. The report urged the Conference to continue to endeavour to eradicate the gambling evil.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 5 March 1914, Page 5
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