W.T.C.U. CONVENTION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10104, 23 March 1909, Page 4

W.T.C.U. CONVENTION.

(Pep. Pkess Association.) Wellington, March 22. At to-day's sitting nf the Women's Christian Temperance Union a letter was received from Mrs L. M. Stevens, president of the W.C.T.i:.' of the United .States., relating to the great success of prohibition in .Maine, whore it lias "been in -operation for fifty-two .years. She quoted from a recent public utterance of the (Governor of Maine to the oil'ect that Maine would look on prohibition as timely, whenever a State could get it. »o matter what was said to the contrary he believed if the people of Maine were to vote on tiie question they woukl give a tremendous majority for prohibition. -Mrs Jainieson, of Tariki. .presented an anti-gambling report, and Mrs Israel that of work in the back blocks. The latter showed the vast amount of effort that had been expended in the direction of sending the magazines and papers to lighthouses, bush-felling camps, etc. In connection with the department of non-alcoholic treatment of disease a letter was read from the late Sir ]}. W. Richardson, president of the British Medical Association, in which he said in the. London Temperance Hospital he had been treating the sick i'or diseases of all kinds, and never administered alcohol or any substitute. Tho report of the department of prison work showed that Xew Plymouth hod helped and succoured n. number of women at the expiration of thoir sentences. In this connection Mrs Lill, of Ashburton, stated that- in her no-liccnse town tho gaol had l been empty for over ten weeks, and labor had to be hired to koep it in order. Arrangements were made for the visit of Mrs Katherine Sente Stevenson, of the United States of America.