THE KITCHENER PLEDGE.

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 239, 18 May 1915, Page 15

THE KITCHENER PLEDGE.

Dear Sisters,- Will you allow me to emphasise the extreme important e of the above work? The action of His Majesty in banishing alcohol from the Royal household until th** close of the war gives us the verv chance of our lives, and this work should, just now, take precedence of everything else In every l nion which 1 have visited it has been warmly taken up, country districts being taken in sections and towns in streets or blocks. We are taking the names of all over thirteen, the age at which the military authorities take knowledge of them. Kach worker takes a penny note book, in which she enters the names of all who sign, and the ages of those under twenty-one. These are. of course, new pledges, not the names of those who have signed before. The Dominion treasury is offering a prize of £1 to the Union which secures the largest number of pledges, proportionate to its membership. When the war shows signs of drawing to a close all who have sigued will be asked to sign

for life, and a second prize of £1 will be awarded to the Union which secures in this way the heaviest percentage of its Kitchener pledges The KK. pledge may be used as a life pledge by the signer crossing out the words “until the end of the war” and initialling the alteration. Pledges may be? obtained from Mr* Prryman or Mrs Dearlove. Yours in tho work, M. S. POWELL Miss Powell’s address for this month is c/o Miss Henderson, 26, Tui Street. Fendalton, Christchurch