WOMEN IN CONFERENCE.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS association.] . Wellington, Monrbv. At to-day's sitting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, a letter was received from Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, of the United States, regarding prohibition in Maine, where it has been in force for 52 years. She quoted from a recent public utterance of tho Governor of Maine, to the effect that Maine would look on prohibition as timely whenever a State could get it. • No matter what was said to the contrary, she believed that if the people of Maine were to vote on the question to-morrow /they would give a tremendous majority for prohibition.
Jenison, of Tarilie, presented the anti-gambling report, and Mrs. Israel that of work in the back blocks. The latter showed that much effort had been expended in the direction of sending magazines and papers to lighthouses, bushfelling camps, etc. ' .„, '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14016, 23 March 1909, Page 6
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