DISTRICT EXECUTIVES.

White Ribbon, Volume 35, Issue 412, 18 November 1929, Page 4

DISTRICT EXECUTIVES.

NORTH CANTERBURY. Met on October 25th at Rangiora. Mrs Richards presided. Mrs T. E. Taylor, Dominion President, in a few words of appreciation and love, presented Miss Henderson, the retiring President, with a bouquet of spring flowers. Mrs Richards was inducted as the new President, and a large amount of business was dealt with. A public meeting was held in the afternoon, Mrs Taylor giving an address, speaking on the origin of the W.C.T.U. Movement. Mrs Taylor was presented with a beautiful posy of spring flowers on behalf of the Rangiora branch. Miss Powell, one of the Union’s pioneer workers, was welcomed. AUCKLAND DISTRICT'. For months past Temperance workers have been greatly disturbed over a brewery being built and licensed on the Great South Road, just about the dividing line of Otahuhu and Papatoetoe, without consulting the residents of that district or bringing it before Cabinet. It was licensed simply by the Minister of Customs, the Hon. Mr Taverner, in whose power it lies to grant such licenses, and upon whom shoals of protests and demands that the license be revoked have been showered from other societies, including the National Council of Women, besides our own Unions. We have also asked that the present law be amended in such a way as to prevent a similar occurrence, but all in vain. We claim that this brewery has been erected on the main highway in order to secure the custom of passing motorsts, and as the law requires that a brewery shall sell not less thun two gallons of beer to any person, it is contended that this will lead to excessive drinking, with tragic results. When our protests brought nothing bu f the ordinary recognition of same, the District Executive decided to organise a public protest, with the aid of Divine intervention, by going out to the brewery as described elsewhere.