Our Workers.
We are sorry to learn that Miss McCarthy, our New Zealand treasurer, is not aide to take office this year. Miss Webb also is unable, owing to family reasons, to accept nomination for corresponding secretary. Our Unions are hoping to have visits from an organising secretary ; this is what i» needed, help and encouragement from an experienced worker. Nominations for New Zealand officers:— Christchurch —President, Mrs Uole. Christchurch ; Corresponding Secietary, Mrs B. Low, Wellington; , Recording Secretary, Miss Powell ; Treasurer, Miss McCarthy. Kav.ioka -President, Mrs Cole ; VicePresident, Mrs Atkinson; Corresponding JSecretary, Miss Webb; Itecoiding >eci»tar v, Miss Powell; I'ieasuier, Miss McCarthy. AsiiiH’kioN Mrs Cole, Miss Webb, and Mi'S McCarthy as President, Secretary and Treasurer. New Plymouth Mrs (’ole. Miss Webb and Miss McCarthy as President, Corresponding Secretsly and Treasurer. Matapu -Nominate all the present officers. Dunedin —Nominate present officers. Mrs Katherine L**nt Stevenson, president of the Massachusetts Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and for foui yeais corresponding secretary of the National Union, has accepted an invitation from the World's Union to undertake a special world tour in the interest of educational work. Mrs Stevenson is a graduate of Amenia Seminary, New York, and of the Boston University School of Theology. As teacher, preacher, and writer she has attained a world-wide reputation, one of her songs, “ All Bound the Woild, having been translated into Japanese, Chinese, and several of the Indian tongues. Mrs Stevenson is expected to visit New Zealand in September. Miss Kuth Davis has gone to live in Japan as a second World’s Missionary. Miss Lucy Broad is now in England giving lectures on Temperance Work in countries she has visited.
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White Ribbon, Volume 13, Issue 164, 15 February 1909, Page 8
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272Our Workers. White Ribbon, Volume 13, Issue 164, 15 February 1909, Page 8
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