IN MEMORIAM.

White Ribbon, Volume 27, Issue 314, 18 August 1921, Page 17

IN MEMORIAM.

The Wellington Union has had to sustain the loss of a capable, earnest, ond devoted worker. Mrs Boxall, Treasurer, and also Dominion Superintendent of Flower Mission and I’hilanthropie Woik, passed away on Sunday, Ist April. She had been ill for some considerable time, but the end eaine unexpectedly by her relatives. She had worked with her wonted energy for the Licensing l’oll of last year, and this, with her numerous home duties, brought on weakness and heart failure. Mrs Boxall was connected with the Temperance movement all her ife. She was one of the earliest members of the W.C.T.U., and at various limes hold important positions in this organisation. For seven years she was President of the Wellington District Union, and at the time of her death was Treasurer of this Union, an office she had held for five years. Over twenty years with other kin* (dred Spirits of the W' UT.U., opened

evening sewing classes for girls occupied during the day, chiefly in the factories in South Wellington, and these were attended on two or three evenings in the week by as many as twenty or thirty girls. It was in connection with this work that her name will always be remembered by hundreds of grateful girls. The rooms at 3.'» Constable Street were purchased, and this became the home of the Girls’ Association. Here the girls not only learned needlework. but were brought under the kindly influences, religious and refining and educative, of the devoted hand of women associated with Mrs Boxall. Kvery Christmas it was her custom to go round to all the factories with sonic flowers and an illuminated text for each of ihe girls; and she would constantly during the year visit the factories to help and encourage the girls with her loving words of advice and sympathy. These were indeed her most characteristic traits, love and sympathy, and many a one owes a debt of gratitude to Mrs Boxall, which found some expression in the beautiful floral tributes sent.

In the W.C.T.U. it will be difficult to find one to equal her in the faithful and conscientious service she rendered first as President, and later as Treasurer. In the latter onice she spared no (tains to ensure that every subscription was gathered in before the end of the financial year, that the Union might receive credit for every member on the roll. Much more might be written as to her faithful, unobtrusive work. She was ever ready, both with time and money, to lend a hand in every good work, always reliable, always ready to step into the breach, no matter Low humhh or how exacting the task to be done. She will never he forgotten by thus*- who had the privilege to work with her. Her gentle, loving spirit will be felt for many a long year among her fellow-member* in the W.C. T.U. of South Wellington, and in the wider spheie of the Dominion Union.