PRISON REFORM DEPARTMENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 243, 18 September 1915, Page 5

PRISON REFORM DEPARTMENT.

Dear Sisters,—My department appears under this brief heading in the Convention number, and I receive very meagre reports at the end of the year. By studying the World’s Annual W’.C.T U. Report. 1 find that the following arc included in Mrs Barnev’s statement (she is the World’s Superintendent of this department): - Charitable work, including hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, almshcuses, benevolent insrtutions, Police Court work, prisen gate assistance, visiting of prisons and released prisoners; efforts to d splace beer in Christmas festivities in public institutions, by gifts of fruit, eggs, cake, etc., tea or milk; rescue work, homes for inebriates, reformatories. besides any e ffort to gain abolition of death sentences, and also to secure the modern scheme of indeterminate sentences; also all meetings in the interests of prison or charitable reform.—Yours faithfully, SISTER MOODY BELL, Supt. of Prison and Reform Work, etc. Amethyst Hall, Invercargill. (According to our N.Z. departments, charitable work is included under “Flower Mission and Relief Work,” and not under Prison Reform Department.—Editor “W R.”