Jessie Spink Rooke

“ Rooke had for years been one of the most prominent figures in philanthropic and temperance work in Australia, and was always to the fore in any movement for the amelioration of the condition of the poor, or any reform in the drink traffic. She was for five years president of the Tasmanian branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and for three years president of the union in Australia, and all through her recent illness was looking forward hopefully to attending the sixth triennial convention of the Australasian Woman's Christian Temperance Union to be opened at Hobart on February 23. ”

“ The following letter published in the 'People's Friend" on January 1, was probably the last she wrote for the cause she had so much at heart.—"W.C.T.U. Beloved Comrades,—Let me wish you a very happy 1906, and full of loving and prosperous service for the cause we are pledged to uphold. One thing we are assured that His grace is sufficient for all our needs, and we shall be more than victors through Jesus Christ. ”