Obituary.

White Ribbon, Volume 17, Issue 203, 18 May 1912, Page 11

Obituary.

+ Mi:s Maoxi s Ai.i.kx, Lyttelton. < >ur dear old friend and fellow-worker, Mrs Allen, passed peacefully awav on April 1 Ith, in her H2nd year. Mrs Allen was (me of the fiist members of the Lyttelton Hranch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which was inaugurated on April 10th, INM. The follow ing year she was elected President. She was one to inspire others with her courage ami energy, and was a willing helper on ull occasions. Our meeting on April 17th took the form 01 a memorial service. We spent a profitable time, and at the conclusion sang the hymn, * Safe in the Arms of Jesus.” < hir loss is indeed her gain.

Mhs R. M. Ckksswku..

I hiring the past month, one of our New Zealand Superintendents, Mrs \. Jones, of Ngaere. has suffered the severe loss of her mother, Mrs lb M. Cresswell,

of I'apauui, who passed quietly away on Sunday, April 7th Mrs Cresswell arrived from England with her parents, Mr and Mrs Jos. Pattrick, by one of the lirst four ships in the year 1860. She was well known throughout (’anterbury, and was greatly beloved. While not an actual working member of the Women s Christian Temperance Union, she was a subscriber to the White lb hi ion paper, and took an intense interest in the work, and would have joined the Union if her health had permitted.

For the last year or two she has been quite an invalid, and at times suffered much pain. Her influence was always on the side of right, and by precept and example she worked quietly for the Nolicense cause, and while unable to do all she wished, wo can say, “she hath dime what she could.”