W.C.T.U.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14442, 31 October 1917, Page 8

W.C.T.U.

ii^mtr 6 , monthl y meeting of the ' 1 W.0.1. U.- held . yesterday afternoon, the superintendent of the GOO 4 Citisferi Department, called attention to the : folfowing resolutions passed by the Women's Societies m Christchurch; and' which j were fully endorsed by the local union: I "Cinema improvement" for children.— On .Tune 27, 1917, the Oanterbury Women's Institute invited representatives of'the W.C.T.U., V.M.C.A., the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, iMbthers' Unions and women teachers, to confer on the cinema m relation to' its effect on children. The following resolution was passed \ That children's performances of a wholesome and Varied type should be given on *Satur days and m school vacations ; that model programmes for such performances would be best drawn up by educational representatives acting m -conjupction. Twith pi cture v managers ; that? th^ *di*tari__ of children's seats from the screen "should be regulated, and explanatory intervals given to lessen any to .the e^es ; that trtikncyi officers should' h'&ve free p;wse_ .to^a'ffernoon performance*3v*of contimiou'sVpictures; that this meeting of represehtatives of Women's Societies considers that the stricter censorship of picture^Yentertahiments which ;hiis been piTiposed. being merely repressive, must be; regarded as a stop gap only, "and that t^e actual production and i-.running of the^S exhibitions should -be placed under popular control, with f. elected boards pf management." A sufS'-fcommit-t^e is -now conferring with tn& picture nianait'ement concerning childi^h's performances." ■■;'■.-* , '- ; , *.-.'■■.

YDuririg the • : afterhboh YNTigs . Faubert gave a hiost interesting addre¥s on the subject of "Rex Physiology, bemp^taught m the Public achool^^ >' Miss (Jhatterton also gave a; -most in'tei*-estitf(s? : ! ; *t»ik oil her work as medical missionary among the Maoris North oj Auckland.