NEW PLYMOUTH W.C.T.U.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 26 October 1901, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH W.C.T.U.

A representative meeting of temperatce workers f.nd members of the W.O.T.U. was held on Thursday evening at the residence of Mrs Allen Douglas, president of the Union, as a " leave-taking " of two of their oldest o-'AOvkeis, Mr and Mrs Oollis, sen., especially the litter, who has so long been associated with tha work for women and children, and was chiefly instrumental in establishing the I W.O.T.U. in this district. Let'ers wei\< wad by Mrs Douglas from uiembnrs of the Union, residents of Waitara, Stra'ford, and Midhirst, who were unable to be present,all alike expressing hearty oppreciation of Mrs Ooilis' services. : i Mr Hcdder, late of Stratford, made jsjme very kind leimrks on behalf of, | absent ones and of his own knowledge of Mrs Oollis' work there. , ; Mess s 0;oy, Neil, and Marfell also i fpoke as representative of the 1.0. G.T. and Jiarid of Heps in remin-1 iscjnco of the early work of both Mr aud Mis Oollis. A piofi'able e invers ttion followed in review of the past £|,od of the future of tha temperance causa generally. Mrs Douglas presented Mrs Oollis with a purse of sovereigns on behalf of h. r comrades for the purpos? of providing something to add to the comfort of the more restful days which thoy hoped would be experienced in her new home | in Oiunbiidg". P.ev. S. J. Serpell having opentd with prayer, nlso closed the proceed- J ings, hfter th« singing of "G.'d be with ] you til! we meet again." I