NBWTA Report 1903-071
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136 I fully agree with Mrs. Amos, 137 and we must also take to heart her: and the venture was so successful that the British Women there are hoping to continue the work on each successive Bank Holiday. The work among the people in the caravans has been going on Many of the Branches have held teas and meetings for steadily. them, and much good has been done. i At Wisbech the Branch gave a tea to the fair people ; Boston did the same. Swindon had a refreshment tent at the annual fair; Barnet had a refreshment tent at Barnet Fair; Driffield had a tea for the showmen ; and they also opened a room, where servants and employers could meet, at the time of the hiring fair. Nottingham Branch gave a tea to the showmen at the goose fair, and many other Branches have helped these people in different ways. Altogether, the work of the past year has been most encouraging; but there are still larger possi- bilities for our efforts, and it is hoped that during the coming year each Branch will try to do something to further the Temperance cause in this way whenever opportunity offers. MINNIE J. LAMBERT, Nat. Superintendent. opening words—*“ There must be no resting on our oars, now that we! God willing, we will go on till are beginning to get into the current, we reach the free ocean.” Yours for God and Home and every land, BK, L. Arxey, National Superintendent. Cleyelands, Wimbledon. WORK AT FAIRS, ETC. The British Women’s Temperance Association has done excellent work during the past year in connection with hiring fairs and wakes, and also at all sorts of annual shows and fétes, as well as on Bank Holidays. There are still many opportunities for work in this way, of which Nearly all some of the branches might take advantage, but do not. country branches can help, even if hiring fairs are not held in their particular districts. There is great scope for our efforts in this direction, and the Branches that have taken up the work have in most cases been In country places there is generally a flower show, a richly rewarded. horse show, or an agricultural show, at which a nice refreshment tent could be opened by the British Women. So often at these fétes there is no place at which refreshments can be obtained, except at the booths kept by licensed public-house keepers. An excellent example of this was found in Aberdeen, where the British Women opened a large pavilion for the sale of teetotal refresh- ments on the occasion of the Highland Agricultural Show. It was noticed there, that while this particular tent was besieged with people wanting refreshments, the ordinary booths of the public- The venture was in every house keepers were yery sparsely attended. way a great success, which helps to show how necessary it is to provide these tents, where non-alcoholic refreshments are sold, and all Branches should do their utmost to help on the cause of Temperance in a similar way wherever an opportunity occurs. The Berks County Union had a refreshment tent at the Royal Counties Agricultural Show, in June last, which was a great success in every way. The Branches near London can often help on the work by having refreshment tents on Bank Holidays on the large commons and open spaces. The Ealing Branch still continue to have their tent on Ealing Common on Bank Holidays, and it is invariably a great success. A large tent on Hampstead Heath, at which the Y Branch gives valuable help, has proved an immense boon to the large numbers of people who spend their Bank Holidays there. This year the Walthamstow Branch has for the first time had # refreshment tent in Epping Forest. Easter Monday was the occasion, BREWSTER SESSIONS REPORT, The “Guide to Work at Brewster Sessions” was sent to all the branches in December last, together with a letter, with the object of stimulating interest in the powers given by the New Licensing Act on its coming into force. _ The result appears to show that greater interest has been taken in this department. Two hundred and fifty-five branches took part in opposing licences, either alone or in conjunction with other societies. Three hundred and twenty branches, however, give no report of work in connection with this department. _ The following branches, amongst others, report refusals of appli- cations for new licences :—Norwood, Islington, Tottenham, Acton, West Kirby, Walmer, Newport (Mon.), Wimbledon, Buxton Kettering, etc. _ Fifty branches report attendance of members at court during the Sessions. 4 gOther branches report subscribing to funds for payment of legal services, the presentation of petitions against new licences, and the holding of prayer meetings during the sittings of the courts. Ripon, Driffield, and Louth branches successfully opposed appli- cations for extension of time during the coronation festivities. As a special feature of their work, and Oxford branches took for the reduction of existing licences. io Dover, Newbury, Handsworth, part in deputations to magistrates, asking Horfield, Lee and Lewisham, Guildford, Whitby, Spalding, anea, Haslingden, Winsford, Louth, Eynsham, St. Ives, Bury St. Edmunds, Truro, Hanley, Stoke and Accrington branches sent memorials with the same object. | i ‘ { | |