NOTES AND COMMENTS.

White Ribbon, Volume 12, Issue 136, 15 September 1906, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Another I t nowned Postal Note. — The Business Manager asks ns to announce the fact that she has received another |v>stul note, without the sender s name. The envelope bears the Thames jK*st mark, and the note is stamped “Paeroa.” Will the sender please forward her name and address, so that the amount may be entered to her credit. The White Ribbon Find. —We are asked to acknowledge the receipt of contributions to the foregoing Fund, from Ashburton, Gisborne, Inglewood, Eltham, Onehunga, Hamilton, Waikari, Otautau and New Plymouth. Feilding and Masterton have each sent a second contribution.

The Anti-Totalisatok Petition. — We are asked to notify the fact, that as soon as the petition forms are filled

up, each Cnion should forward them to Wellington, addressed to the member for its own electoral district. There should be no delay in the matter.

Resolutions n Liquor at Exhibition. —The rnions and friends generally, throughout the Colony, have doubtless noted the fact that it is now unnecessary to forward (as asked by Mrs (’ole) resolutions to Parliament anent the sale of alcohol at the Exhibition. 0 0 0 Help for Free Reading Room. — Our Napier correspondent renews her request that some Canterbury friend will, after reading his or her copy of the Lyttelton Times , post it daily to the Free Reading Room, Napier. If so addressed no stamp is required. As will be seen from the Napier rejxirt, the Room is doing good work, in which it should be accounted a privilege to help 4 6 0 Acknowledgment. Miss Moody Bell, our N.Z. Recording Secretary’, has received a letter from “ 10 Downing street, acknowledging the receipt, by the Prime Minister of England, of the resolution forwarded to him by direction of the Greymouth Convention on the subject of the Opium Traffic ; also one from the office of the N.Z. Minister of Justice, acknowledging the receipt of a series of resolutions passed by (Convention.

Mrs Leavitt. —A further letter has been received from Mrs Leavitt, in response to that sent to her bv direction of the Greymouth Convention. In it she remarks, “ It appears that the heads which were wise enough to win enfranchisement have been wise enough to make no blunder since vou have had the power in your hands. . . . You have caused me great joy in my old age by telling me that you believe I helped on the good work. When we can look up to God and say, ‘I have done the best I could, forgive what Thou seest amiss,’ that is the best thing, whether our efforts are successful, whether they are noticed or acknowledged, or not; but it is very uplifting to the ageing soul, past all active service, to receive such an abundant, ungrudging tribute.” A Lady Doctor. —Dr. Alice Moorhouse has !>een appointed to take charge of the Suite Maternity Home shortly to lie opened in Christchurch,

Town Milk Supply.—ln the course of an address given under the auspices of the Christchurch City Council, Mr J. A. Kinsclla, Dairy Commissioner, stated that in Napier and Wanganui the hulk of the town milk supply is pasteurised and delivered in sealed bottles, but that in all the other towns and cities the old haphazard and objectinnable method of delivering from exposed mi Ik cans is followed. Mr Kinsclla strongly recommended pasteurisation as a temporary expedient for averting or minimising the danger arising from dirt and disease, hut pointed out that with pro|>er imqiectioii of animals, clean milking, eflicient straining, cooling, and bottling, such treatment would he unnecessary and the milk in its natural state would keep perfectlv sweet.* The quality of tlie milk supply is essentially a woman's question, and as the matter can be effectively dealt with only by the municipalities, another instance is afforded of the great need for the presence of women on city and Ixirough councils.