PRESIDENT'S LETTER.

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 236, 18 February 1915, Page 2

PRESIDENT'S LETTER.

January -’7, 1015. Dear Sisters, Miss Howell is now organising in Otago and Southland, and will work North through Canterbury. She* will be available for any necessary organising work if Unions will provide hospitality, but in the case of new Unions, selection of officers be left to he r discretion. Will the* Presidents who require Miss Powell's service's as organiser, or to he lp the ir Union, please communicate with Miss Henderson, Corresponding Secretary?

I should like to call the' attention of all Unions to the' Agenda published in the* last number of the* “White Rib bon” for our March Convention. You will see* that one* afternoon is to be* devoted to “Plans of Work for 1 q 15” and discussion of same. In view of our recent failure at the.* poll, and the fact that the women’s vote was not in favour of No License*, we must try to find the* reason, and se't ourselves to remedy it. If the Traffic is to be abolished from the Dominion, the women must vote it out, and we must

begin at once to wage an aggressive campaign, so I want every delegate to bring a suggestion as how best to do it, and I trust the result will he that we shall find new methods, tenewed inspiration, and fresh courage to kc*'p our organisation in the very front of the fray, to Educate, Agitate, Legislate, and Do it Now, and keep at it till we win or die.

I hope* to see* every Union represented at the* coming Convention, hut especially the* >mall branches. Make a big effort to have vour own delegate pre>e*nt, and come yourself if possible*, so that our Conference may he* larger than any previous ones, and our never-ending hostility to the Legalised Traffic stronger than ever.- Yours in White Ribbon bonds, RACHEL DON, Dorn. Pres.