W.C.T.U.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13410, 6 March 1914, Page 5

W.C.T.U.

ANNUAL CONGRESS AT GISBORNE

THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

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Clsberne, March 5. The W.C.T.U. Congress opened this morning. The presidential address delivered by Mrs Don, of Dunedin, referred to the growth of membership and the activity of the organisation, and dealt with many topical subjects —woges, amusements, and pleasure. •It showed that the increasing tendency of week-end trips threatened to become a serious menace to the sanctity of the Lord's Day. Referring to picture shows, she urged that a responsible body be created in New Zealand to supervise films. Many of the pictures now shown were creating an i:nwholeBorne appetite, leading to wholesale moral turpitude. The State should make provision for the detention of mental defecthes. It was appalling to think that abnormal girls, who should be under restraint, are mothers of children. In one case under notice last year a defective was the mother of eight children, and was now supported by the State. The report urged the conference tq continue to endeavour to eradicate the gambling evil.