OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

White Ribbon, Volume 9, Issue 97, 1 June 1903, Page 5

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Copy. St. Louis, Mo. Mks Scinackenberg, Dear Madam, Of course you have heard of the Great World’s Fair to be held in St. Louis, in 1904. The Woman s Christian Temperance l nion will erect a beautiful Ice Water Fountain on the Worlds Fair Giounds, from which the tempted and weak may get a drink of pure cold water. l o make money to pay for this fountain, we are to have a handkerchief sale. Knowing your interest in Temperance work, I write to beg you to send us a handkerchief of any kind or style. Will you do us the favour, for which we will be very grateful? Send very soon. Write your name and the price the handkerchief ought to bring, on a paper, and pin it on the handkerchief. Assuiing you your help is needed, and will be greatly appreciated, I am, your sister worker, (signed) E. B. Ingalls. National W.C T.U. Committee, to World’s Fair.

Dear White Ribboners, I feel sure that many of you will like to send a handkerchief to our friend, Mrs Ingalls. I know of one that, in response to the first letter I wrote, has been sent, it w’as w’orked by an Armenian woman. We are not all of us able to send any of such great interest as that, but any contributions will be appreciated. Yours as ever, A. J. SCHNACKENBERG. Address to Mrs E. B. Ingalls, 4119 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A. Dear White Ribboners, Being a visitor at the Bluff, I was invited to attend the monthly meeting of the most southerly W. C. T. U. in the world. I found a handful of brave women in the Presbyterian church, grappling with the problem of how to raise funds for the purchase of a section on which to build a room, where the men of this fast growing and flourishing sea-port town would find a cheerful fire, newspapers, books, and quiet games, to serve as a counter-attraction to the bar and billiard rooms, now’ the only doors open to them. The “ Sailors’ Rest ” is used only by the deep-sea sailors, and, incredible as it seems to outsiders, cutter men are forbidden to avail themselves of its shelter. Bluff is the headquarters of the oysteringtieet, and some of the men, having no homes on shore, live and sleep aboard their tiny crafts. The great need of a comfortable room, where such homeless men can profitably spend their leisure time, is only 100 evident. It is proposed to hold a bazaar in a few months' time. White Ribboners, I appeal to you to help our brave sisters to make this bazaar a financial success. Miss Mitchell, Ocean Beach, Bluff, will gladly receive contributions of any description. Yours in the w’ork, S. Twemlow. Assistant Corresponding Secretary. Bluff, J une 6th, 1903. Dear Sisters, I exceedingly regret that, through an error, the Potisonby union was omitted from the official list in the Convention number, although my footnote congratulating that Union upon re-organi-sation was duly printed. I have also much pleasure in announcing that a union has been formed at Lower Hutt,

secretary—Miss Jenness. May I once more thank you for your very hearty response to my appeal on behalf of the organising fund ; as the letters come in I just long to answer every one of them, but that being impossible will you accept this acknowledgement. And will treasurers please note that remittances should be sent, not to me, but to Mrs Hill (see circular). Yours in the work, M. S. Powell, N. Z. Corresponding Secretary.