NORTH CANTERBURY ADVANCES.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 345, 18 March 1924, Page 6

NORTH CANTERBURY ADVANCES.

\ .hi «miit omc ( t i tii- division of tii. < "auterhui \ I 'un m« ml I nion Into I * i districts, North and South, the N.C. D.U. hold, under the president T. K. Taj lor, 111 tii st Exe< m \\ Ing in the Christ church rooms on Keb« ruar) Mth, when Presidents and • >i the foUowini Unions an* w. ied Um •<»n cal i 'inlstchurch, Brighton, Kaiapoi, Lincoln, Oxford, rapanui. Rangiora, Sydenham, and Sumner. \r ttional Mi> i lor explained thai tuck ■ gathering over v, Mich she was presiding was really an Innovation. Previousl) all preliminar) work tor t in- j - .us i paign had been arranged bj the ofll cars of the Union. 'Pins owing to the icattored areas < > i k • < i b) the Canterbury District Union, bul now that Oanterburj was dirkled mi<> North and South Districts, thus allium | OUi ent I al lon and n direct supervision and sympathetic encouragement, it Mad been deemed id visable to call together the Presidents of all the I'nions. as the) w. ■- I I officio members <>t the District Union, so thai they could take their pail hi all the plans for the greatei eAcienc) of the individual Unions forming the united irhoie. The gathering then resolved It Into i firse heart to heart talh upon problems, perplexities, and knotty points thai first one arid then another . d help or i nlightenmenl upon The average attendance ai the month!) meetings, the allocation " , " funds, formation of I'nions in new oentn s, Band of Hop* woi k, I h< i on nlng of departments, wen topl< discussed. Miss Henderson, as Ken Zealand . t.n j. being pr» by invitation, gave much valuable inrormatlon, and made ojulti dear some vague and misty notions with t> to department! of work thai bj name soundc.l roniph \. but • nahle of being simply nm wnen prop rty nnder *tooc\ Qttlte a number of T'nions had fear thoughts about 'flood Clttaenahlp." lasl When Miss tfenderaoti explained undei such r heading cam-' getting tnetr women on School Committees working for the Introduction of M Wng in •• porta, °f

ft i m;, prises for T< rapei ana man) wen relieved and hupp) to w t ins was iln \. i \ um | x i hey had 1m . a bus) about nn Ithout realising themselves entitled to appoint ■ Bupei lnt< ndenl of < io.Mi »'it Izenship. One Union did not troujbh about a Cradle i h church and Kunda) school In the district had such adk Roll But tor that district and I hat I 'nsident the W.i'.T.l . I ' •• d, and the cradle will Me helped to rook i<> i temperance luNab) now that its quite plain h"w Important la ihi lie Roll d< pan uiein. toeing n stresses th< obligation of the mothei to abstain from alcoholic beve ■- while nursing hei child, while such an obligation la not reouir ed from i church oi Sundaj ("iau • I, < »ni\ one resolution was psosnd b) the UXecutive, and at once bioadi. through North Canterbury, to be put Into Immediate a« tion i>> the p- rsevi r Ing and • I Hi< mil: effort of e\ ei \ who!' heai ted \V C.T.I mefllh r. This |S the resolution "That all Unions be Invited to ob sen e th i nding Ifarch lOt h \i- mi., rahip < fempaign We. k, ah< n member undert »a ;| personal Invitation to aa mans women as possible to link up with the local w C.T iv Our Executive meeting mad.' us acquainted with each other, and gave u* a new understanding of the ea deavour of one and ail to make good In her particular little corner <d" the Mai • fteld a ' .in. d i hj ihe reap*