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ÁRDÍ S
Manitoba Temperance Alliance Report
By MARGRET I. BARDAL
Delivered. at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Convention
oj the Lutheran Women’s League,
Riverton, Man., June 13th, 1953.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
As your representative on the Manitoba Temperance Alliance
I wish to present this annual report of the activities of this organi-
zation.
Our Annual Convention was opened in Greenwood United
Church on Monday, November 3rd. It was a three-day convention,
sitting until Wednesday, November 5, 1952. Rev. D. B. Johnson pre-
sided. A full executive meeting was held at 6 p.m. Registration
from 7 to 8 p.m. The speaker for the evening was Professor R. M.
Halstead, he spoke on Mid-Century Liquor problems. The next
session at Young United Church on Tuesday, November 4th, and
the speakers there were Judge Hamilton, Social Aspect of Drinking.
Also A. W. Muldrew who is the convener of our Educational Com-
mittee in the M.T.A. Wednesday, November 5th, we had Dr. John
Brown from the Manitoba Government Department of Education.
Also Rev. A. J. MacLachlan, Tabernacle Baptist Church, formerly
of Yorkminster Church, Toronto.
Our budget for this year is $14,000, our government has agreed
to give us $10,500 provided we raise the balance of $3,500 by public
subscription.
In making the president’s report this year, Mr. Johnson said,
“It is not my intention to dwell upon the detail of things which
have been done throughout the year, that falls more to the two
secretaries. There are one or two large contours of the year’s land-
scape to which I cannot escape making reference.
Firstly as suggested in the excellently prepared program “We
Have Grown”, it would be impossible for me to avoid making
reference to the extent we have grown, chiefly in being able to
secure the service of a new secretary last April. Made possible by
the generosity on the part of our provincial Government, offering
us $10,500.00 from April 1952 to March 31, 1953, in the month of