LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1942, Page 3

LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

MEETING IN MASTERTON. ADDRESS ON LOYALTY. The monthly meeting of the League of Mothers was held in the Parish Hall, Masterton, yesterday, when the president, Mrs L. B. Maunsell, welcomed a large number of members and friends’. Seven new members were enrolled. Members stood in silence as a mark of respect to the memory of Mrs Pearce, who had died after a long illness, and in sympathy with Mesdames Garland and Carpenter- who have suffered bereavements. The choir rendered two items and Mrs Fairbairn two solos. Mrs Maunsell introduced the speaker for the meeting, Mrs Wall, Dominion Secretary of the League, who spoke on Loyalty. Everyone, she said, was aware of the great cost of national disloyalty, but not many realised how farreaching disloyalty in the home could be. The League is purely a band of homemakers, and if mothers failed in this great task, nations would also fail. A house divided against itself cannot stand; therefore it behoved every parent to be loyal in the smallest details. It was good to see our country defended militarily, said Mrs Wall, but it was equally necessary that mothers should defend the homes and keep gruesomeness and evil away and. harmony, happiness and loyalty within. Mrs Maunsell thanked Mrs Wall for her inspiring address and Mrs Gaskin presented her with a posy. Nominations for office will close at the July meeting. The tea hostesses were Mesdames Heyder, Gaskin, Irving and Millar.