AN IMPORTANT NOTICE.

White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 7, 1 August 1946, Page 7

AN IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Housing and food are post-war problems not only in Canada hut in many other countries, and you will not really be surprised tHat the Convention and Tourists I’.ureaii lias notified the Canadian W.C.T.U. that it will be impossible lor Toronto to house and care for the W orld’s Convention in 1047. Three times we have postponed our Convention to dates recommended by the hotels and Tourist Bureau, and this deeision is final. Our C anadian White ICbboners greatly regret the decision. They feel, however, that under the circumstances it will be impossible for the Canadian W.C.T.U. to entertain us. They feel, and so do we, that this is another post-war tragedy. We have not had a Convention since 1037 and it is imperative that we hold one in 1947. When the situation was made known to the officers of the National W.C.T.U, of the United States, they graciously invited the Convention. Here there are imilar problems, hut the City of Asbury I'ark, New Jersey, offers the use of its five-million-dollar Convention Hall and its equipment for the World’s Convention, the dates June 5 to 10, 1D47. There are 200 hotels in Asbiirv Hark, several very near Convention Hall, while Ocean Grove, a Christian community, is separated from it by Wesley Lake and an imaginary line. Both cities have a large winter as well as summer population, though they arc both summer resorts. They use the same railroad station, as do the two railroads. Both are located on the ocean front and the weather in June is delightful. Asbury Park is located about half way between New York and Philadelphia and is only a ride of an hour and a half from both. The City of Asbury Park welcomes us and not only gives us the Convention Hall free, with its auditorium and other rooms, but the use of other-city-owned property on the Boardwalk. You will not he surprised that the invitation has been accepted. We will tell you more about it later in the Bulletin— in the Union Signal and through other National W.C.T.U. papers. Remember the place—Asbury Hark. New lersey, U.S.A. The dates, lime .* to 10, 1947. THE GENERAL OFFICERS, World’s W.C.T.U.