IN MEMORIAM.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 388, 18 November 1927, Page 2

IN MEMORIAM.

Mrs Ueughley. With startling suddenness came tin* call to our White Ribbon sister, and it seems hard to realise that she has gone from among us. Mrs Caughley was a member of Wellington Central Fnion, an ardent prohibitionist and a devoted worker in the cause of Temperance and Social Reform. She was a delegate to the Hamilton Convention, and took a very keen and intelligent interest in all the business of the Convention. She was for some time White Ribbon Agent tor her Fnion. and was keen to help our official organ. The report of Wellington Central in this issue is from her pen. On Satutday, November r»th, she opened the Sale of Work for Miramar Fnion, and several present remarked upon how weli and happy she was looking. It wms a most pleasant function, and will be tenderly held in memory by all present, as the last service that our sister rendered to the Fnion she loved. On Sunday morning, with Mr Caughley and members of her family, she was motoring home from the morning service, when, in one tragic moment she was called to enter the unseen. A cyclist on the road, Mr Caughley turned the car aside to avoid him. when it ran off the road, down the sloping bank. Mrs Caughley

was so badly injured that she died before reaching the hospital.

We expected to lose her for a time when she went to Fiji, where Mr Caughley is taking up a positiou as Director of Education. Rut Clod willed otherwise, and she has gone from us for ever. Mrs Caughley was a gentle, quiet influence for good w herever she went, and will be much missed. To Mr Caughley and family wo tender our sincerest sympathy, and the staff of the White Ribbon will long mourn the loss of a friend ami fellow* worker.

Mrs Evans, Dominion Recording Secretary, represented the Dominion W.C.T.U. at the funeral, and Mrs Mowletn and Miss Kirk, Presidents, the local Fnions. Last month, one of Hawera’s members, Mrs E. F. Burge, was called “Home” after many months of suffering, yet when visited by her friends she was always so bright. She leaves a husband and young daughter. At the funeral of our late sister, many W.C.T.U. members followed to tin* cemetery, and our President recited the Crusade Psalm after the service.