Our Workers.

White Ribbon, Volume 15, Issue 176, 16 February 1910, Page 8

Our Workers.

♦ Headers will be interested to learn that Sister Moody Bell has accepted the appointment of a “ Sister of the People,’ in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church in Shannon via Palmerston North. She takes up her duties on the 1 3th inst. < >ur prayers and sympathy will go with our sister in her new sphere of labour.

We are always pleased to hear of the doings of our workers who are labouring in other lands, and the following extract from a letter received from ?Jrs Swinev, author of the “ Awakening of Women,” and President of the Woman's Suffrage Society of Cheltenham, will he of interest to manv in the Dominion :

I was very glad to receive your letter and acted upon the advice at once with such success that we have had Miss Roberts, of Christchurch, N Z. with us to speak on the Suffrage movement, and gave us an account of how it was won in New Zealand. Unfortunately we had n>i a very large audience which her splendid address deserved, hut all who heard her were much delighted and interested. She has written to me since advising us to approach the li. W.T.A. and work together for the franchise, as it was certainly the Great Temperance Reform Tartu that v on it in New Zealand.’’

The following tribute from Mrs Lee Cowie speaks for itself.— ‘‘Miss Anderson Hughes is winning all hearts; wherever she goes she is first favourite. I am told that at the great Alliance meeting her speech was the finest of the morning's session. I feel so proud we are helping the country with something better than murderous “Dreadnoughts.” If we could send over to the Mother Country a few score of glorious men and women to fight the liquor foe, workers who would dreadnought,” wo should do them tremendous servico in that drink cursed land ”