W.C.T.U. CONVENTION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10105, 24 March 1909, Page 1

W.C.T.U. CONVENTION.

{Peh Phkss Association.) Wellington, March 2. The Women's Christian Temperance Union resumed- its sitting to-day. Officers were elected as follows : President. Mrs Oile. Christchnrch ; vice-presi-dent.-, Mrs A. T. Larirc and Mis A. I!. Atkinson: corresponding r;ecretary. .Mrs Powell, I}nncdin; recording secretary, Mrs '.Mitchell, ]nverc;m:ill ; treasurer. Mi's J. LM'Combs; Giiperintendcmls of departments—Evangelistic, Mrs Upton, Wanganui; homo meetings, Sister Moody Hell, Knniarn; work amongst young people. Mrs Snence, Parsonage, Palmer-, ston Xorth ; scientific temperance instruction. Mrs Maunder, Jj.-uvera: unfernK'iited wine. Mts Garvin, Grevmonth; hygiene, Mrs W. S. Smith, Christc-hurdi: press, Miss Tretirxa. Ashburton ; mothers' meetings, Mrs Harbutt, Mount Albert, Auckland iiible in schools, Mrs X. Dewar. Auc-ldand; narcotics, Mrs gkideils. Wanganui: work amongst- seamen, Mrs Whitby, Lyttelton ; peace and arbitration, Mrs Orifrin, Hamilton ; literature, Mrs Hughes, Auckland ; anti-gambling, .Mrs Jemison, Tiriki j legal and parliamentary, Mrs li. Low, M.A., Wellington : prison work, Mrs .Johnston, Y.W.C.A., > Auckland; back blocks, Mrs Israel, Xapier; non-alcoholic treatment of disease, .Mrs Xeale, Napier : agricultural shows, Mrs Howard, Timnrit: tlower missions, Mrs Cole, Christchnrch; good citizenship, Mrs L.ogan, Waipukiirau; thrift, Mrs Iveay, Hntt; purity, Mrs Canon Webb, Ormondville; educational meetings, Mrs Powell, Dunedin; observance, Mrs Lill, Ashburton. Resolutions were passed protesting against the indignity put- upon no-license districts which have to be su.bect to "the trade" advertisements upon the walls of the railway stations, license electorates not- being allowed to have no-license advertisements, and against- the business of the country being suspended on account of race meetings. At the evening session a resolution was passed in favor of a bare majority at local option polls."