[2][3] The organization's work included lectures, deputations, public meetings, drawing-room meetings, conferences, distribution of literature, correspondence and advice, opposing licenses at brewster sessions (magistrates' sessions for issuing liquor licenses),[4] promoting the return of total abstainers to boards of guardians, and of members of school boards who were in favour of scientific temperance instruction in schools.
[1] In the WTAU, a Standing Committee on Junior work was elected and reported annually to the Legislative Council.
Women lecturers were prepared to visit the Provincial Societies and arrange for examinations when desired.
Circulars, with a pledge form attached, urging the importance of inculcating and strengthening temperance principles in the girls under their care were addressed to the 1,000 women visitors of the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants.
[5] WTAU members organized and carried on a school at the Agricultural Hall, for the children of the Travelling Showpeople during the six weeks' Annual World's Fair.