ALLIANCE CONVENTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1081, 19 September 1930, Page 10

ALLIANCE CONVENTION

AUCKLAND AREA’S MEETING YEAR’S ACTIVITIES REVIEWED The annual convention ol' the-Auck-land area ot the New Zealand Alliance will be held in the Unity Hall. Upper Queen Street, next Saturday afternoon and evening. The business is to be taken in committee. The Rev. J. \Y. Court, the president, will preside. A discussion on the . Dominion financial position of the alliance will be opened by Sir George Fowlcis, and “The Alliance and the Moral Forces of the Community” will form the subject of an address and certain motions' by the Rev. AY. J. Connie. Mr. J. Pur tell will lead discus-ion on the political policy of the alliance, and after tea at the Y.AWC.A. cefeteria Miss C- M. Me Lay, Dominion organiser of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, will speak to the convention on “The Protection of the Home, Women’s Sphere of Influence.” The speakers at the evening session will be Mr. Melton Murray, general secretary of the alliance, who will advocate certain amendments to the existing licensing legislation, and Mr. L E. Falkner, whose subject will be the next poll. The organisation of the area consists of an area council with a, membership of 102 delegates and members under the presidency of -Mr. J. W. Court. “The period covered by the report has been an exceedingly difficult one.” states the Auckland area in a report for the period from February, 1929. to May last. On account of, the unsatisfactory financial position it has been necessary to reduce expenditure to a minimum. Tho area has been divided into about 150 districts under the direction of leagues, committees and representatives. An endeavour was made to provide a practical programme of educational activities that could be undertaken by churches, secondary schools, Bible classes and kindred societies. The material prepared for the secondary schools has been well received and Bands of Hope and other temperance societies have been assisted.