NOTES AND COMMENTS.

White Ribbon, Volume 12, Issue 135, 15 August 1906, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

“ Union Signal, ' World's W.C.T.C. Convention Numbers.- The New Zealand Executive is ordering a limited supply of copies of the Union Signal for November. Tnese are expected to contain a full record of the proceedings ot the World’s Convention, the reading of which will doubtless prove not only interesting, but educative and stimulating. Unions that have not ordered direct from America may obtain copies 011 application to our N Z. President,

Mrs Cole, Cashmere, Christchurch. Price, 7d for tin* set of four. Application should he made immediately.

The Anti-Totalisatok Petition. Mrs Macalister, N / Superintendent of the Anti-Gambling Department, asks us to call the attention of the Unions to the “ necessity of gathering in the forms as soon as signed, and holding them in readiness until they receive intimation in the columns of the White Rikiion as to when to send them.’

Those who have not paid for their forms are also reminded that Mrs

Macalister will be glad to receive payment, so as to meet expenses.

Sermons A< » xinst Gambling. — It is most desirable that the l nions should use their influence with the clergy’ of tin* various churches, so that, within tin* next few weeks, sermons on the evils of gambling may be preached from every pulpit in the Colony. The Sunday-schools, too, should not be overlooked in the matter of addresses. The young men and maidens are in immediate danger of being led into the vice, and need a warning word ; those of tenderer years may carry, childfashion, the message to their homes, and there preach to parents and friends.

Thf Christchurch Juvenile Bazaar

—Cigars and Raffles. It wasa happy idea to enlist the sympathy and service of the school children in the interests of Nurse Mamie's Consumptive Camps, and the promoters of tin* huge bazaar must be gratified at the handsome sum realised. Two regrettable features in connection with the bazaar, however, call for comment. First, there was a stall for the sale of cigars and cigarettes. This, in face of the facts that youths under fifteen are by law forbidden to smoke, and that the intimate connection between sun >king and impaired physique is now thoroughly proven, was at once sadly and ludicrously out of place in a juvenile hazaar run in the interests of a health crusade. Second, in connection with some of the stalls raffles were held. What defence can be put forth for thus familiarising young folk with gambling ?

From Sickness to Health - The many friends throughout the colony of

Mrs Blackwell, of Kaia|>oi, have been deeply grieved to hear of the serious state of her health during tin* past few weeks. There is now, we are glad to say, a slight improvement, and Mrs Soulbv, the Secretary of the Kaiapoi Fnion requests us to ask for prayer from ail White Ribboners that the invalid may be fully 7 restored.

Generous Wanganui.- The Wanganui Fnion is evidently alive to both its own responsibility for expenses incurred by direction of Convention in connection with the W.C.T.F. Bav at the

International Exhibition, and also the immense educational value of the exhibit. If the other Unions are pro|>ortionately generous, tin* minds of those ladies who arc giving so much time to the preparation of the Bay will, with regard to tinances, he set quite at rest.

“ Lost, Stolen, or Strayed -{Under the foregoing heading the Superintendent of Educational Meetings writes ):

Several Educational papers, the property of the X.X. Union, among others being “ Work Among Young People, “ Alcohol and the Heart, “ Our Genesis,"etc., etc. Anyone returning the same to Miss Powell, c o Mr Denton, Wanganui, will be rewarded by the consciousness of a long-forgotten duty performed at last. Secretaries, please turn out drawers and boxes in search of above. The Superintendent takes this opportunity of informing all whom it may concern that there being only two copies of Miss Alice Webb s paper on “ Narcotics,’ and fifteen applications for the same, some patience will have to be exercised. She will be obliged if those in possession of the said copies will copy the paper and pass it on at once, forwarding to her their own copy as s<xm as finished with.