LETTER FROM ACTING PRESIDENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 30, Issue 355, 18 February 1925, Page 9

LETTER FROM ACTING PRESIDENT.

D* ar White Ribbon Sisters, — Once again the campaign is with us. A few weeks from now we shall meet in Dunedin for our Campaign Year Convention. What does that signify to you?— each Union and each member. Most of your District Conventions this last time have been record gatherings, full of inspiration and plans of work for the coming months. How much more then may we expect to greater strength, wisdom and enthusiasm from our Dominion Assembly in Dunedin next month. Fo I would ask you and urge you, each and every Union, to realise and Like up its own individual responsibility for making this gathering the largest and finest we have ever had

In New Zealand. Send as delegates the very best women in your Union, who can come to tell us what you are doing, and to tell you what Convention and the N.Z. Officers want you to do; send the fullest delegation that you possibly can—give them messages of cheer and suggestions for work that will inspire and enthuse all the other women present. May I say that those Unions who have never sent a delegate to Convention and those members and offleers who have never attended a N.Z. fonvention, can have not the faintest idea of the inspiration and uplift that this great meeting affords, of the wide scope of our work, and of the number of very splendid women who take part in it.

Our tw'o beloved officers, Mrs Don and Miss Henderson, will almost certainly be with us to cheer and instruct us with accounts of the wonderful things they have seen and beard of women's work in other lands —be sure that you are there to see and hear them and welcome them back to their home-land with a right, royal welcome. Then, too,*we must not forget that this is once again “our year of opportunity.” in the name of our Master, we go forward once more to meet face to face, in the fight and at the ballot box, our deadliest enemy, the liquor traffic. His weapons are such as we cannot and dare not use, so we must equip ourselves afresh with the armour and weapons of Him. Whom we serve. We must put on spiritual and moral strength to combat the forces of materialism entrenched in the high places of appetite and financial greed. Grace and power will be ours to carry back to our Unions if we come together in earnestness and faithwit h intensity of purpose to serve. Let us remember yet again those comrades and leader* who have fallen in the fight, and left it for us to finish. Let us be true to that trust, and come together in all the strength and love of our womanhood to help one another, and to receive the message from our Lord, and then go forth inspired to work in the fields already more than “white with the harvest.” Yours in His service. ELIZABETH B. TAYLOR. Noting Dorn. President.