Overseas News and Messages

White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 1, 1 February 1946, Page 6

Overseas News and Messages

W.CT.U WORLD CONVENTION AT TORONTO AGAIN POSTPONED

Ti ' situation makes m i another postponement ol the \\ Gild's Convention. Tin than \\ hitc Ribboners I isl) ex tended their invitation for 1947 and the 1 upon is June of that will be announced later

It will be ten years since we i met in convention and the fears have fraught with sacrifice, pain sufft mderful the waj which White Ribboners 1. II work is still needed It is cially important that the nat. - in our fed< entries be repn ''\ one or n Ih< ir -<ii officers and h\ regularl) appointed delegates Visitors will be wel

Tlu place of meeting will be Toronthe R< fork Hotel will l>e headquarters It will he an import ant o>mention i al new World's < officers must be elected ami there will man) problems to be solved \ plans made tor the rehabilitation ir work.

inisation has been a pioneer in promoting world friendship. Let our lion be the first women's convention to ndships »nt Let ii- all pra) foe <iod's guidance and I lis blessing on our meeting. I LLA \ BOt »LE, President. \(,\l - 1 SI " K SAUND] ■ >rld's W.CT U

MISS MARY L. BOLLERT. OF VANCOUVER. B.C.

(Late President of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association)

News has W w /■ !i m '. \lar\ I. Bollert, Pre sident of the I 'an I A omen's \s. •:. and the first dean of women • he Unhersit) i I British ("ohm Vfter a distingui ihed nt<i [ Innersity, from which she graduated with honours in English and modern languages, Miss Bollert held numerous important position! and urn both in < "anada and th< I Inited v- For SOm( ■ the '-it-.' Coll Columbia Universit\. and included in her w public i under the \Vn Y"rk B 'on Later she di and dean l\ R( na, . and then - the University lumbia He? h ll work and in .< ii's . i ranisations was inter- : <. omprehensive, her sound (hip and her charming personality enablinu her to make an ontntribution in women's atI »ean Boded travelled widely m

this phase ol her work Slit he International I ederatii mi i>j I m\ ersit) \\ omen at conference in Paris (1924), Geneva (1929), and Edinburgh (1932), and was :est speaker at the International \\ omen in ( hicago (1933) In l'>.>d she was selected as i member ut> oi twehe deans of w<>men North Vmerica to \ isit the Y\ N < \ "i and her -penal interest in irs was continued in her valuable work ;it conference ol the Pan-Pacific Women's V«sociation held at intei i als at 1 [onolulu and lastl < r in i ■

\> preside nl i»f this a 111 Bollert intended to visit New Zealand in January, 1940, when the triennial conference was planned to be held in Wellington. However, war tune conditions prevented the assembly •i international conference and \ew /ealand women now regret he pans leader whose W'-rk lor education and international CO 01 tion has been so remarkable. (Supplied b) Mis \ndi tu s, * liaiiinan Pacini < immittee, N / ) The following raph has been supplied 1»\ Mrs ' rainsford, President ot the ( >pawa I 'Mr Jones is one ol our honoured mission lit is a! pi ( Min in \'i-u /, .. land, and made the enclosed statement in an address at our recent Vnnual Vssembh at I Kinedin "

I was f< r thn e and a quarter j i connected with the militar) in India during tin. war For two and a halt \ ears ! was m i nver l. I **) men. No liquor was al lowed in an) of imps of the I nil. This applied also i<> the offi< llless | doubt it there was , n Wain a happier, healthiei oi more hard rking Unit. M > experient months m many ramps throughout India, leads to >n that dimk is the great est sjn: caldc C3USC of lln I encj in the \rmv in India. ed) H \ ft >\'l Commandant 2nd Bengal C.P F

l\e. II \ [ones, New Zealand I Mission, Brahmanbaria, East I gal, India

QUEENSLAND—BRISBANE

'1 he I .icensing ( a >mmissi< »n of Queensland now have power to pend a licensed victualler's licence im mediatel) for failure to supply accom modation and/or meals to the public, whether hma fide tra\ellers i>r not. In mii "Tnternati< >nal R< cord "

AUSTRALIA SYDNEY

VI- 1 >aj - the bars were closed f< >r forty-eight hours, with remarkable and gratifying results \ striking compari s.mi between Sydney and Auckland, where the hats were opened, and suited m drunken —From "International Record."