TEMPERANCE WORK

Southland Times, Issue 22510, 19 February 1935, Page 3

TEMPERANCE WORK

NEW SOUTH WALES CONVENTION.

At a meeting of the South Invercargill branch of the W.C.T.U. the president, Miss McCallum, who recently visited Australia, gave a talk of interest to temperance workers. On landing in Sydney the Misses McCallum accidentally fell in with a delegate en route to attend a convention of the state of New South .Wales, and the visitors were cordially invited to attend the convention. The delegates at this convention numbered 70 or 80. There, Miss McCallum learned that the state had 46 unions with a membership of 1438, 59 Bands of Hope, 221 L.T.L.’s, a Cradle Roll of 1449, but only one Y branch. The state president, Mrs Grant-Forsyth, together with all the branch presidents, were women, of educational abilities, and Christian graces, and Miss McCallum observed that the meetings were conducted, very quietly and orderly with ministers giving splendid addresses, the aim and object of workers and speakers being the educating of the young people and children on scientific temperance. This work was being done mainly in public, high and Sunday schools, in girls clubs, in fellowship unions and Bands of Hope, and even the propaganda during Health Week claimed a good result. The Country Women’s Association in New South Wales (similar to the Women’s Division here) and the church organizations combined with temperance organizations in a campaign for the uplift of humanity by spreading literature, giving public addresses in factories and halls, and even by broadcasting. Milk depots established in busy quarters by Milk Boards recorded that the consumption of milk had doubled in 12 months. Miss McCallum was invited to speak at the convention on “Youth Work in New Zealand,” and astonished her hearers at the largeness of the work in that connection. The Invercargill representatives were warmly welcomed by the New South Wales White Ribboners and each was presented with a beautiful bouquet.