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Newfoundland Women’s Institute Members On Travel Tour to Ottawa District At the Semi-Annual Board Meeting. a letter was considered from Mrs. Joseph Conlan, a Women‘s Institute member from Newfound~ land. It stated that twelve members from New- foundland would be coming to Ottawa on a Travel Grant Program near the end of June. Mrs. H, L. Noblitt, Board Director for Sub- division 2. Ottawa Area, had contacted Womâ€" en‘s Institutes in her area and volunteered that they would be responsible for the hospitality plans for these twelve ladies from June 27th to July 2nd. Mrs. Arthur McNeeley and Mrs. D. MacLachlan, Board Directors Subdivisions l and 3, will assist Mrs. Noblitt and the Board voted to assume expenses up to $100.00. Graduation Fifteen Women‘s Institute Board Directors and one Junior Board Director were attending their last Semi-Annual Meeting of the Provin- cial Board and on Thursday evening they ex- tended an invitation to attend their graduation party to be held in the Games Room of Lamb- ton Hall. “Belles and Beaux“ was the theme carried through invitations, program settings and lunch. Mrs. N. A. Fletcher presided at the piano for Opening song. Mrs. Wm. Makins inâ€" troduced Mrs. R. C. Moffatt. Her musical hells were arranged on a setting of a “Sun, Moon and Stars coverlet" more than 170 years old. Mrs. Moffatt contributed several musical selections and also provided background mu- SIC. Mrs. Annie Milligan. in costume. recited her favorite monologue, “The Bell Telephone". Another number featured Grandma Mrs. F. Tottle seated in her rocking chair. reading from an 1888 Woodstock newspaper and reâ€" miniscing with granddaughter, Mrs. W. John- son. The life history of each retiring Board Director was portrayed in story and with picâ€" lure. Surely human affairs would be far happier if the Power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more diffi- CUIW than their tongues. â€"Spinoza. SUMMER 1971 Resolutions Report One Emergency Resolution. submitted by the Constitution Committee, was sustained by the Board allowing the Provincial Board to vote on adopting the revised Hand Book at the Semi-Annual Board Meeting. Presenting the twenty-five resolutions. Mrs. Small asked the Directors to give careful con- sideration to each resolution and then vote for what would be best not only for our own or- ganizziLion but for the people of Canada. THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS WERE SUSTAINED. SOME WITH APPROVED CHANGES. Central Ontario Area WHEREAS there are a great number of ac- cidents in Ontario each year where one of the parties involved does not have Public Liability Insurance and no fee was paid to the Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Fund. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario petia tion the Department of Transport to require all of the Automobile Insurance Companies to notify them immediately when any liability policy lapses or is cancelled and the above mentioned Department have the automobile checked to see if it is insured. Cochrane-Temiskaming Area WHEREAS at present some undergarments and sleepwear offered for sale. is of poor workmanship in the application of thread and elastic: AND WHEREAS there seems to be a lack of quality in the same: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario do everything possible to encourage the manufacâ€" turer to put a better quality and workmanship into these garments and that they ask the Con- sumers Association of Canada to use their in- fluence to promote better workmanship and quality. WHEREAS at present there is a varying of prices for prescription drugs; AND WHEREAS pensioners and persons on fixed incomes find this difficult to cope with, having to follow a budget; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario do everything possible to bring about a standard price for these drugs and ask the Drug Assoâ€" ciation to use their influence to promote the standardization of prices on these drugs. 19