SOCIAL HYGIENE SOCIETY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16732, 13 May 1922, Page 6

SOCIAL HYGIENE SOCIETY.

| A very large attendance of parents at Addington School on Wednesday evening showed the great interest | being taken in the educational campaign undertaken by the Social Hygiene Society. The chairman of tho School Committee presided and several other members of tho committee attnded Dr Sandston, in dealing with the phsical and medical side of the question, said that early home teaching would do away with tho unclean atmosphere now attached to sex knowledge and create a more Teverent and unselfish one, vice being tho very essence of selfishness- Mrs Roberts dealt with the responsibilities of parents to their children in the matter of sex training. It was hard to dispel the belief of many that ignorance was innocence, but the case was one of pure knowledge or impure knowledge. At the dose many guestious were asked and a large quantity of literature dealing with the subject was t sold.

A pound of the rarest blend of Ceylon tea, enclosed in a silver casket, was sent to Princess Mary as a wedding gift from the Girl Guides of Ceylon. It« value, it is considered, cannot be calculated in shillings and pence. It is a matter of Ceylon history that the record price fetched by this tea was in £B9l, when it was sold in London for £25 10s a lb. When brewed it is a golden amber colour, and is usually taken without milk or sugar. The crop, which is always small, is generally ordered beforehand by ruling princes in India. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Christchurch branch of tho Women’s Christian Temperance Union was held on Wednesday, the president, Mrs T. E. Taylor, occupying the chair. Arrangements were made for a meeting to be held at Riccarton on May 18. The report from the Women’s National Council was received from the delegates who represented the W-C.T-U. on that body. The report showed that nine women’s societies are affiliated with the council, and that valuable educational work had been accomplished in such subjects as social hygiene, prison reform, tho training of the feebleminded and social welfare work. Notes of sympathy were passed with the families of Mrs Anne Taylor and Mrs Patrick, also with Mrs Lilliecrap, president of the Invercargill Union in the death of her husband. Mrs B. M. Zahel, of the Island of I3adu, in the Torres Strait, and her assistant, are the only two white women on the island, yet they claim to be perfectly happy in these seemingly lonely circumstances. Mrs Zahel has been on the island for twelve years, and is in control of two villages. Badu and Adan. She instructs the children in the simpler branches of education, administers the laws and acts as nurse. Mrs Zahel has just had two years’ furlough, which she spent in England. She represented Queensland at the quinquennial conference of the National Council of Women in Norway, and was an interested student of the women’s movement during her stay in England.