The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity." WELLINGTON, AUGUST 18, 1926. THE EDITOR'S NOTE-BOOK. A REAL LIVE UNION.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 374, 18 August 1926, Page 6

The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity." WELLINGTON, AUGUST 18, 1926. THE EDITOR'S NOTE-BOOK. A REAL LIVE UNION.

Our Editor travelled overland from Ntd.son to Blenheim in order to have the privilege of meeting the Rai Valley Union. This live Union, on a drizzling wet day, gathered about 30 women together to meet us at 1.80 p.m. Several had come long distances, and all were deeply in earnest Mrs their energetic President, met us. and look us to a hospitable Whits Ribboner’s for lunch. After a tine meeting. afternoon tea was served. Then it rained, it hailed, it thundered, and in a perfect deluge we joined the service car for Blenheim. We ran through Havelock, whose Methodist minister and bis bride had been at the Hai Valley meeting, and upon her breast we had the privilege of pinning our white low. Then Canvastowu w.t passed; a small Union hits l>een organised here, and Mrs Murray, its earnest President,

had also journeyed to the Rai Valley meeting. Blenheim was reached at 6 p.m., and there Mrs Grigg, District President, had gathered the Blenheim officers to meet us at her own home. An earnest talk upon the different phases of our work followed, purlieu larly our need of educating voters by circulating our own literature and paper. 8.30 found us ai>oard the train for Picton, and ut 11 p.m. we left there in the "Ngaio” for Wellington. We just remembered leaving the wharf and dreamily feeling the motion of the lx>at, and »ve knew nothing more until the stopping of the engines woke us, and we looked out of th*- porthole to see Wellington wharf lieaide us. Lower Hutt was reached in time for breakfast, and the W.C.T.U. meeting visited that afternoon. The meeting resolved itself into an earnest discussion on how to make our meetings more instructive, entertaining and attractive to non-inembers. The question was faced fairly, and we prophesy a good forward move as a result of the stocktaking that day. The trip home wa* made over flooded country, the road between Poxton and LeviL being closed for traffic, so the papers reported. But it takes more than the old Manawatu in flood to scare Mr Rout, Foxton’s mail-car driver, off the road. So we left |,«*vin by car. and motored to the bank of the river. There the car was i*ark**<i, and loaded up with luggage we walked across the Wherokina Bridge. A Hat-bottomed punt awaited us. and in H we journeyed across flooded paddocks and above w ire fences until we reach a dry roiul again and getting into a char-w banc wore soon at our “ain ft reside.’’ STRAW BA I A .OTN A great dea l is being made lately In our papers al>out 1 ml lots lslng taken by different papers in the I'S.A. as to whether the 18th Amendment should !>e modified. The "drys” abstain from voting at these, because there is no guarantee as to their fairness. One person may vote many there’s no check upon such a thing. So the “drys ' record their votes at the jtolling :>ooth and always come out strong there The “IHdroit Times'* reported the result of stf-h a poll in the town of Pierre, h D. The “Times" reported that Pierre ojist 10,230 dry ballots, and 27.834 w»t IwilloLs. Now the census of I[>2s gives the total population of Pierre as 3,580. Babies and ill evidently

turned out strong and “voted earl> and voted often.” NUNC DIMITTIJS. Scotland’s National President closed the Convention with these earnest words, which we may all take to heart. "We have been here for our annual overhaul. We are into dock for repairs, so that we may go hack and do our l»est. Let us scrap all that is of no use in our Branch work. us bring in a searchlight and put a\va> all the gloom. We have met to confer. Now let us rue up and work. Let u make sure that we shall reach the realisation of our work, and see our visnm of a sober and ‘dry* Scotland conn- true ’