OUR FORWARD MOVEMENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 405, 18 April 1929, Page 14

OUR FORWARD MOVEMENT.

A MILLION SHILLING FI ND. “Women are the practical, singleminded sex. They know what they want, and every minute they live, they are doing everything they can to get it.” The delegates at the Convention just concluded, have made up their minds, that they want a Headquarters for the Dominion, and knowing they

want such home for the W.C.T.U., they are doing everything they can to get what they want, and what they want most of all at this juncture is a million shillings, to launch an aggressive forward movement to place the whole work of the Union on a firm, financial basis, and to start an educational campaign amongst every section of the community. In all the years of Its splendid service to New Zealand, the WC.T.IT. has never made an appeal to the public for monetary help. Now the time seems opportune advertising our work, and for giving business men in both islands an opportunity of showing, in a substantial way, their appreciation of all the WC.T.IT. has done in the past, and is planning to do in the future for the uplift of the folks who live in this favoured land. It was a momentous decision to retain t'ne premises acquired by the Committee set up for that purpose, as a Headquarters for the Dominion W.C.T.U. The decision of the delegates to launch out in faith and to be obedient to the Heavenly Voice to go forward, conies back to every White Uibboner for ratification. Really, there can be no going back, because the Headquarters property has been bought, and it is going to h * work, prayer and pains, on the part of each individual member to provide the means of payment. A million shillings fund is being opened at once. Cards of bricks, worth a shilling, are being prepared for distribution as soon as this issue of the “White Ribbon" is in the hands of our readers. The Unions arc to be distributing agen’s for these cards, each worth one pound, and to get them on the market, it will be necessary for each Union to appoint at its next meeting a “Shilling Fund” Treasurer, who will obtain the perforated cards from Miss Henderson. 9 Straven Road. Riccarton, Christchurch Our Dominion Shilling Fund I”, going to give all practical women cf our organisation the chance of doing everything they can every minute they live to get the thing thev know they want. The Dominion Officers have set apart Miss A. M. McLay as Organiser of this Forward Movement, and Unions can get all particulars by writing to Miss A. M. McLay, C/o. Miss Henderson.