NBWTA Report 1903-030
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55 54 OxForRD CouNTY UNION. We are glad to report progress in the work of the Union, and to know that our membership has increased from 636 to 705. The Eynsham Branch has been revised, and is now doing well. One reports a There are signs of activity in all the branches. systematic distribution of tracts, Band of Hope held monthly at the Workhouse, and “ Cyclists’ Rests” arranged at eighteen places in the neighbourhood. Another reports success in providing a refreshment tent in connection with the Coronation festivities, and another in arranging for a lady’s cloak-room and resting place at a large pleasure fair. (Mrs.) J. HuGuHEs, Hon. Sec. agricultural shows, etc., and by popular teas, suppers, and concerts; while political and personal efforts, and house-to-house visiting have been very general. New Branches have been organized and lapsed ones re-organized and the Million Pledge Crusade added the gratifyin b ohittiah to the Union membership. Mees Woo The official organs of the Union and of the National Association and the literature of both, are made good use of. The Badge is being increasingly worn. White Ribbon choirs are multiplying, and much help has been given by them in the 1,362 meetings of various kinds organized by the Branches during the year. The Union has completed ten years of active and willi 1 to the Temperance cause. ; ne ANNIE C. PRICHARD, Secretary. CouUNTY UNION. funds. (Mrs.) Mase, M. Watson, Hon. Secretary. SoutH METROPOLITAN UNION. The South Metropolitan Union has 30 affiliated branches, nearly all taking an active interest in and supporting the Police Court aaa cae yew ae two Homes. Reports, entitled “ What the B.W.T.A b “TA, Pao in South London,” have been sent to 150 members of public Vigorous attempts have been made to prevent th 1 intoxicants as Christmas gifts. BREEG ob, “SHB LF The Conferences on ‘“ Public-House Trusts,” and subjects j helpful to the Branches, have been productive of much good, and ve a " out latent and hitherto unrecognized talent. Many Branches have assisted the White Ribbon Band movement Much enthusiasm has been shown in Brewster Sessions work. R. Kemp, Hon. Sec. NortH WALES UNION. The North Wales Union is surely and steadily gaining a strong The recognition, influence for good among Welsh men and women. sympathy, and encouragement accorded to it by Welsh men becomes more marked year by year. The Union works in many directions, and has had during the past year sufficient success to stimulate and hearten it to further and greater efforts. Nearly every one of its Branches is a living, working Branch, active in various ways. Special efforts were made in connection with the coronation festivities; more Brewster Session work was attempted than in any previous year; and more efforts made to provide counter- attractions to the public-house, by the establishing of Temperance houses and cafés, by providing Temperance refreshment tents in East LONDON UNION. The ' Secretary is pleased ¢ to re port another year of blessing 1 progres and s in the work. Besides the usual monthly Council ee at which the business of the Union is transacted, and reports from the six affiliated Branches received, the Union has held three public meetings at different centres in the East End. The first of these was a Annual Meeting, which was held on April roth, 1902, at the Great te ee ee The meeting was presided over by Se uehan Ruigh iston Chant, ; and address in address ed ed by Miss i Gorham and the Rev. ie The next important t event was the Annual G arden Party, which i nee on July 17th in the grounds of Harley House, a Road! € alternoon meeting, which was a crowded one, was held in Harley aces LANCASHIRE Work on licensing reform has been stimulated in this Union by a paper given at the Autumnal Conference in Oldham by Mr. Alfred T. Davies, of Liverpool (author of “The Licensing Problem and Magis- terial Discretion,” etc.), on the Licensing Act, 1902. At the Spring Conference in Preston five minutes’ reports from eight branches were given on the working of the new Act. And a resolution was carried and sent to Mr. Balfour “deeply deploring his attitude towards the magistrates in connection with their judicial decisions for the reduction of licences at the recent Licensing Sessions.” A sub-committee has been formed from the executive of this Union to watch the progress of Mr. Butcher’s and Sir Hart Dyke’s Bills, and the question of compensation of licences from Imperial |