WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18292, 8 July 1921, Page 9

WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

The monthly meeting of the District Women's Christian Temperance Union ■was held on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Hiott occupied the chair, and Mrs Don, dominion president, rat beside' her and took an active and very helpful part in the proceedings. Af.'er devotional exercises conducted by Mrs Driver votes of sympathy were passed with a member who had lost her husband and with the family of a very old member who had recently passed away at the age of 31. Mrs A. C. Broad reported on the farewell social given to Mrs A, S. Adams. An invitation from the Rev. Knowles Kempton to hold a church parade at the Hanover Street Baptist Church was accepted for August and various suggestions made byMrs Don were agreed to. Mr Ait ken, organiser for the United Temperance Reform Council, introduced by Mrs Don, asked the union to appoint a lady collector to gather funds for the forthcoming prohibition rally.—Mrs Don stated that Mrs Armor, a noted American worker for prohibition, had agreed to come to Mow Zealand to help in the work for the next election, and the W.C-T.U. would itself require funds to pay for her services.—lt was decided to leave the matter for consultation with the U.T.R.C. A letter from the secretary of the Oamaru W.C.T.U. stated that her union had taken steps to inaugurate a rest room for women ami children in Oamaru, and that the City Council had promised assistance. A letter was received from the secretary of the Y.W.C.A. offering the use of. rooms for meetings

Four remits to go on the agenda paper of the forthcoming con|orence of tho National Council of Women were submitted to tho mooting. Tho first asked for support for tho League of Nations. It was decided that this was too big a question to be decided without serious consideration. It was resolved to ask the Dunedin branch of the N.C.W. to provide a speaker on the League of Nations at the Provincial Convention of Otago and Southland Unions to take place in September. The second remit affirmed that a general education m dietary principles was necessary and suggested the legal standardisation of bread, eo that at least 80 per cent, of whole grain bo included in flour. Mrs Don pointed •out that for 50 years the W.C.T.U. had had a special food control department, in which Mrs Skcffingfen Booth had don© wonderful work.

Mrs Hiett reported that the executive had decided to hold a provincial convention of Otago and Southland! Unions on September 7, 8. and 0. It was earned unanimously that Mrs Don be appointed convention president ami Miss Powell convention secretary. Details of the proceedings were arranged, and Hospitality, Refreshment, and Music Committees appointed.