NBWTA Report 1904-033
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63 62 Raised £40 to start ear Refreshment and Parliamentary Candidate. as counter-attractions to public-houses. Quinton, at Rooms Reading new members. bringing for Prizes Falmouth.— at Refreshment Rooms on Fair Work members. —382 Grimsby. ¥ member on Board of Canvassing for Temperance candidate. day. Guardians. Large number of men associates. Two Y Town Councillors. Flower Mission. A.B.C. Sale, £50. Coffee Cart. Goodmayes and Seven Kings.—Flower mission. Attended Brewster Sessions. Canvassed public-houses ve Barmaids. Work for Birds’ Nest. Lee and Lewisham.—White Ribbon Band. MINUTES OF THE THE COUNCIL N.B.W.T.A., { HELD { FRIENDS’ MEETINGS MEETING IN 1904; THE HOUSE, BISHOPSGATE OF DEVONSHIRE STREET, HOUSE, LONDON. Matdenhead.—¥ lower Mission. Christmas party to 70° Moseley.—Guild of Brave Poor Things. children. Flower Mission. £14 by Sale. Morley—Help and Hope Band. Visiting invalids and cripples. New Year’s tea to 240 poor children. 107 pledges during year. 200 members. Parkstone.—Concert in aid of Poole Hospital. Penzance.—Flowers Paddy's Goose.—Industrial Exhibition and competitions. all working girls. Portsmouth.—Scientific Temperance Classes. Brewster Sessions. Members Canvassed for Assisted in Campaign Meeting against Govern- Barmaids’ Memorial. ment Licensing Bill. 155 pledges during the Sutton Coldfeld.—White Ribbon Band. for Birds’ Nest. Work Ribbon. Witte of monthly copies 100 year. North Shields —White Ribbon Bands. White Ribbon Bands. Tottenham.—Guild of Brave Poor Things. East Dulwich—White Ribbon Band. Loyal Temperance Legion. Working to build a Blackpool.—Choir to help Town Mission. Temperance Hall. JANET CLARKSON, Hon. General Secretary. MORNING (JUNE HE sent to six Hospitals in London. Redhill and Reigate—Attended WEDNESDAY 8TH, SESSION. 1904.) Twenty-eighth Annual Council of the National British Women’s Temperance Association assembled on Wednesday morning, June 8th, 1904, in the Friends’ Meeting House, Devonshire House, Bishopsgate Street, London. Lady Carlisle, President, called the Twenty-eighth Annual Council to order at 10.30 a.m., the session being opened with prayer by Miss Slack, and the singing of the hymn “ Blest be the tie that binds.” The Secretary read the Roll Call of Officers and Delegates, the total number of delegates registered being 873. Mrs. C. C. Reed announced appointments made by the National Executive Committee as follows :— Returning Officers—Miss Swankie Cameron and Miss Southall. Tellers—Miss A. Lile, Miss Hawkin, Miss Irene Cox, Marten, Mrs. Boardman, Miss Budgett, Miss Langstaff, and Carter. Committee seconded, on ‘That Resolutions—Mrs. Mrs. Toulmin, Griffith Davies, Miss Harvey be appointed, Swankie Atkey moved, Miss Bertha Cameron, with Miss Bertha Mason, Mrs. Mason Mrs. Mrs. Miss Mrs. Emmett Boden, Mrs. and Mrs. Watson, as convener.” Carried. Time Keepers—Miss Phillips and Mrs. Gamble. Mrs. Osborn, as Hon. Recording Secretary, presented the report of the National exception Executive of the Committee, recommendations ve Scientific Temperance and moved its adoption ve Departments, Instruction and Political and with the resolutions Departments (which would come before the Council later), and the elimination of all words after ““N.B.W.T.A.” in the resolution ve Minimum Membership of a Branch (page 13). Mrs. Carter seconded the motion, which was adopted. Lady Carlisle had a warm welcome when she rose to give her Presidential address, and the whole assembly rose to greet her. |