W.C.T.U.

Southland Times, Issue 19774, 26 March 1906, Page 3

W.C.T.U.

Pot’ Initod Press Association. O REVAtOLTII, March 2 1, At the Women's Christian Temperance Convention this afternoon tin* election of superintendents of departmenis was continued as follows : iiibk* iu schools : Mrs Idowar. Auckland ; narcotics: Miss Weld). ()r----mondville ; work aniony seamen : Airs Whitin', LyUoltuii ; literature : Airs Hughes. Aiicklaml : aiUi-yamli-linff : .Mrs Macalisier, Invorcaryill : legal and parliamentary : Mrs Sheppard. Christchurch : UMiVivnmnUyi wine : Airs Parkinson. Urey mouth.

1 Ivsolu t ions wviv jmssru rx|ii'cssiiig thanks to Almighty (Iml tor lhr mlvaniT of tin- colonial uu.-l ici-nsc vote; tlcploring tin.- fact lit..! s > many good nifii and women voUnl lot the continuance of the Irnllic ; urging all branches to. take up a pK-dgi'-takiug mi.sath" among men and women ; urging women to set character infore politics in the choice of candidates for public otrices. The report of the legal and parliamentary department being read and adopted the following resolutions were passed : —Adinning the economic equality of husband and wife; the desirability of the legal recognition of the same; urging that .sc-ienlinc temperance instruction be included in the examinations for teachers’ cei’tideates and made a compulsory class subject in schools ; urging that all sex distinctions enforced in the factory Act be abolished, these being prejudicial to the .economic interests of women ; that parents should be obliged to contribute to the support oi their illegitimate children ; that failing the ability of the parents the State should provide for such children : that paternitv being proved these children should he registered in the name of the father and possess an equal stains with those horn in wedlock; that a woman should be appointed as a public idlicer to discover the parentage of such children, where possible, with a view to providing for their maintenance ; alUrming the principle pi equal pay for equal work. The question of the W.C.T.I . exhibit at the International Inhibition was discussed. It was decided to accept the invitatiion of Christchurch for the Convention to meet there m 1907.