TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9446, 26 May 1898, Page 2

TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.

(Per United, Press Association.) r t ' Palmerston North, May 25. J ... ' : , The Temperance Convention opened'toyy::'}' day, ana was attended by 243 delegates, as v against 160 last year, from Wellington,"" Hawke's Bay, and Taranaki provincial '< districts. Sir Robert Stout presided.- '~ < A memorial' resolution v&s 'passed? in- V eluding Gladstone,. Neale, Dow, Drs.Lee^ and' Richardson, Miss Willard, ana / J. H. \*\

Napier. ', "- ' •' jsj "i {."'■, Resolutions were passed appointing anO organiser for the division, and recerdin§.^ that the New Zealand Alliance, oppose ■?'• the granting, of a lioense,at MangaweKa. P A'legal defence fund was formed.-" ' , ~-' J 4 ' The fojlowing comprisptoe new'exeou.tt" tive:— Wellington, City; Messrs 'AtMnabaijVi Fras&r, and, Thompson ; sdburbs, . Mask King ; Wairarapa, Key.' Mr Mfirray ; Mas-V terton, Rev. Mr WoodjvOtaki, Rev. : Mr,ir Bellhouse; Palmerston North 1 , Bev.iMr'tf Stubbs;>,RangiplTei, Rev. Mr Shearer;,'^ Manawatu, Rev. Mr. Doull f- Wanganni,'Ki Mr GG t > Carson, M.H.R; Patea.Jttr Craw- if ford T -Hawera, Mrß. O, Roddies'] ''jEg- i. ; mont,' Mr Harkness \. New PJiymouth.Rey^i Mr White; Waiapu,Mr Lambed ;'<N>pTer,r * Rev. Mr Buller; Hawk&'B Bay, Rev.-Mr >'. Morrison ; , Waipawa.N Revi Mr , Wills j ,■': Pahiatua, Rev. Mr Ecoles.' < ' '''■ ,•/'""'''■ Papers were read "on 'iDrink aha Crinie,"* \ Sif> Robert Stout; " Drink anaiiabour,"' 1 .' Mr J. Hntcheson,-M.H.R. ; "Drink 'and'-'-: Pauperism," Mr Fraser'r * s ;"• "; *?,, J A public meating was heia last night; ,v and addressed -by" rep"resentatives\of \aU.J, thechurohes. ' , l< ' -, . 1 v . v >--<j To-night tb,e speakers are Sir ' Robert \ Sfout, flfiss Kirk^'and the Revs. F. Igitt^ < andJudkins. i ' i '>'.'>'** <«f'J*. Mr Vale is seriously Undisposed. "* ' -?',-' •■ - ,'■• » ''< " V 'May;26>"' \ • At the Prohibition Gonventibiuyester- '- day, papers were read on "Facta'Conoerri- '•' ing Clutha," by, Mr A. J.^JMalcolmjU "Drink and' the Native Race,". 1 b\t' the' 1, Eev. T. G. Hammond; two papers. -on "Drink in Relation to Health and Disease," ,*-, by Dr Chapple.'WeJljngton, a local ao&tdif ft£ " Legislation Still Required,," by, Mr A: 8f r ; Adams. ' A paper, setting 'forth- the "im- "* proved local option\ l poll regulations >.td->) quired to prevent corrupt prepared by Mr A. R. Atlanson. • '^"" ... It was aeoided tp print several" of the'i = papers,', and oiroulate them throughout • the colony. ■ - ,• „, j >._••';■' I A draft.bill, embodying the demands of the Temperance Party,' was approved; ' 4> V Among ptfier protests, it, was resolved tolV protest against the issue of special licenses, to race meetings, A. and P. sh6ws,ana alh-*" publio gatherings. , - , • '>, -' ,>'^ It was deoiaed to.adyooate the abolition* "' of the reduction vote, ana a request will * be made to the Minister of Education to v " take steps to make scientific temperances' 1 :" 1 pass subject in thepublio schools' Byllabns,.^ and include in e*aminatloni'teaohers' cerv'i tiflcateß. - („ ' ,' ' ,-'"