W.C.T.U. PROTEST.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14052, 24 July 1916, Page 9

W.C.T.U. PROTEST.

(Special to the Herald.) At a meeting of the Woman's Christion Temperance .Union the following resolutions passed': "(1) The executive of the Christchurch Woman's Christian Temperance Union • emphatically protests against the powers suggested m Mr. Russell's speech brfihg vested m th^ Governor m Council. (2) A& • British people we have the right to .government by |aws embodied m Acts oi Parliament pagsejj by qnr representatives. (3)^ While not 'in opposition to --certain, p^rpposqls f di', the treatment of > venereal 'disease,^' we demand these-; proposals »KalL be strictly and clearly -defined m a' seper-j ate bill/" (4) We hold that the efforts of Parliament should be m the direction of minimising' Vide. ■ (5) Experience has shown that a centilry of unceasing care and vigilance m 'ths bf . vice, apd of compulsory • detention of prosittiiies for curative treatment, has proved not only useless by preventing the spread • of venereal diseases>' but has acted ;^s a- direct incentive to vice by creating ', a false sense of security. We hold, that the unlimited- pdwers which the; clause in-the War "Regulation* Bill confers 6i\ the Governor-in-Cbuncii would if passed, "not 'only open the way. to. State regulation of vice, but would also tenet V? the .creation of a bureaucracy which would •be a grave danger to democratic ; jgo.v\ernment." * SBBSSSBSBSBS. ■- '