To Our White Ribbon Secretaries.

White Ribbon, Volume 7, Issue 81, 1 February 1902, Page 3

To Our White Ribbon Secretaries.

Dear Sisters, —May I remind you that before the next number of the W hite Ribbon is issued our annual Convention will have come and gone. Palmerston North is easily accessible from the whole of the North Island, so I hope we shall have a really good representation from there, and that the South Island also will make an effort to send delegates. The U.S S. Co gives a reduction in fares. I hope those Unions not able to do so will not forget to discuss the proposed amendment to the Constitution. Many Unions do not understand this question, and it will be well for them to read the article on the subject in last month’s issue. The great objection to the present rule, in my view, is that, while a District President casts the vote of her sister officers and auxiliary Unions, and is supposed to represent them, they are not really represented at all, because she votes (for them) not as they think but as the thinks. This rule also puts too much power into the hands of one woman. Take, for example, the New’ Plymouth Union. Suppose the president to l>e the only representative from her district. She will have ten votes, while the great majority of her neighbours around the table—whose judgment may be equally as sound as her own—have only one each. Two or three district presidents could in that way swamp the whole vote of the Convention.

There are still a number of reports to come in. Will all who have not already sent reports and returned the forms kindly forward them to me immediately ? Every year a number of letters and telegrams have to be sent from Convention in search of information which should be in the hands of the Corresponding Secretary weeks before, and much time and money are

wasted. Let us avoid this and keep all our funds for the campaign. A number of Unions have also omitted to send me reports of educational meetings Now, dear sisters, do not forget the Convention at the Throne of Grace, but let your prayers ascend with ours, so that with one united voice we may claim the promise of God for the advancement of the work we hold so dear. Yours in His service, Mary S. Powell, N. Z. Corresponding Sec. 28, Windmill Road, Christchurch.