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| e © Branch which was referred to also as the Alice branch did not * j ~ exist very long. The same applied to Stafford. Lake View was afterwards known as Cobden branch. Too, a girl‘s circle at Micksburg was active for many years, doing a great work deâ€" ~_ veloping junior leaders, several of whom. won provincial honours. * The Ode was used for the first time in 1920. This year was also noteworthy because for the first time a federated representative . was sent to the area convention at Ottawa, namely Mrs. A. M. McLean, Beachburg; alternate, Mrs. W. F. Grylls, Westmeath. Since then two of our members, Mrs. Dave Mordy and Mrs. Gordon Hamilton, have sat on the Provincial board. By 1922 this group of women following their dauntless leadâ€" er, Adelaide Hoodlass, had also become health conscious, so the official board of the W.I. discussed the advisability of having school nurses. On discussion, the District Directors with Mrs. James Childerhose, Cobden, were asked to be responsible for having this matter laid before their respective branches, using their interest to awaken community interest. The Councils and â€" school boards were interviewed and the meeting of the Reeves called, in Beachburg in 1923, but a representative from the Deâ€" partment of Health failed to appear. For three years the fire lay smouldering to be revived again in 1926 when the main disâ€" cussion was school nurses. This convention went on record as ~ being definitely in favour of school nurses and the branches : would coâ€"operate with the school boards. In 1927 discussion again ; arose on this matter and an Advisory Board was appointed to ‘ ‘ act with the executive of the W.L, the secretary being asked to communicate with the Department of Health. This Advisory Board reported at District Annual in 1928 that their communiâ€" cations with the Department of Health had been unsuccessful. In 1929 this question came to the forefront again, but apparently . the issue was turned down by the township councils. Nothing daunted, these courageous women made a motion to keep the subject open. Even the next year, 1980, the matter was again discussed at the District Annual, but in the correspondence read it seemed the government would be doing something about the matter, so a motion was passed that "No action be taken." An interesting item in the minutes of 1927 was an address ~ by the Rev, Canon Quartermaine of Renfrew, superintendent of