W.C.T.U.
MASTERTON BRANCH. GIFTS FOR SAILORS. Miss Tankersley presided over the monthly meeting of the local W.C.T.U. Mrs Jansen led devotions, reading a portion of the Bth chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. It was decided to send a parcel made up of gifts brought to the annual meeting in November to' the sailors’ rest in Timaru or New Plymouth. both of tyhich are the special care of the W.C.T.U. The temperance fact supplied by Mrs Hansen read as follows: “The one chief reason for my becoming an abstainer was because I saw on all sides the waste, the ruin, the misery, the degradation, the disease, the wretchedness of homes; the destruction of human bodies and human faculties and human souls, the national disgrace and calamity caused by drink.” —Archdeacon Farrar. The hostesses for the afternoon were Mrs N. Miller and Miss Tankersley.
The meeting terminated with the singing of the Temperance Doxology and the pronouncing of the Benediction.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1940, Page 8
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