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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Mrs Sievwright, president of the National Council of Women, lias addressed a letter to the president of the- Canterbury Women's Institute, hi which, answering tlie question "What good are you. doing?" she says : "We are not here only to help ourselves. Our motto implies that only m helping others liave we, perhaps, any right to expect to help ourselves. Tlie National Council of every country at pre. sent, it seems to me, stands for the promotion of justice, peace, co-operation m all that is understood by the old formula, 'Thy will be done on earth as it is m Heaven.' They stand* for the extinction of poverty, ignorance, vice, crime, cruelty to man and beast, idleness, war, slavery, intemperance and selfishness of every denomination. If this is a fair representation of the aims andl objects of National Councils m general, the question arises, why are we not more fully representative of public opinion m New Zealand? I have always thought and spoken strongly on the dfesirability of societies that are aiming at the improvement of social conditions affiliating with us; but usually, from some petty apprehension, (probably without any real foundations), such as the loss of a few subscribers, who might not approve of the step, they hang back. Let such take heart of grace, and, remembering the advice of the gentle Miss Willard, to do all things, let them come, and, coming, bring us ail the help they can. They shall not be sent empty away. In a letter received lately from the Rev. Anna Shaw, that lady speaks most enipliatically on this point: 'May I repeat what I said m the Executive Committee m Berlin at the time of my election to the position of chairman of this committee (on woman's suffrage). How necessary that all workers sliould aid us by their advice and experience ! How -desirable that they. m their turn, should) learn, through us, what is being done m other lands and 1 by other nationalities tlian our own. little insular democracy.' Will your Institute make a. special effort to help our Executive at this time, along lines indicated m this letter? Will its members charge themselves to impress upon the temperance enthusiast, for instance, that he would! probably be a better temperance worker if he better understood, not only the temperance work of other nations, hut the struggle that is going on, say, for a common standard! of sexual morality or for the political and ■social emancipation, of the race. A medical or surgical specialist, while devoting bis best energies to the perfect understanding, normally, pathologically therapeutically, of the organ of his choice, is careful to keep m sympathetic touch witlu.every other member of tlie complex organism of wliich it is only a. member, it may be only an insignificant member,"

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 7 March 1905, Page 4

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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 7 March 1905, Page 4

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 7 March 1905, Page 4

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