BIG TEMPERANGE PETITION.
Queen Victoria has signified her willingness to receive the petitions, signed in forty-four languages by her women subjects in all parts of the world, praying for increased protection against the liquor traffic and the opium trade. The petition contains over 7,000,000 signatures and indorsements, and has been gathered during the last few years by the World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union. As it is impossible to present the immense roll which contains the names to the Queen, the pages have been photographed and magnificently bound in two large volumes. The title pages are beautifully illuminated. The names of Miss Frances Willard, president of the World’s Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and Lady Henry Somerset, vice-president, head the list.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XXII, 28 November 1896, Page 122
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119BIG TEMPERANGE PETITION. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XXII, 28 November 1896, Page 122
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