Leavitt left New Zealand having created seven local chapters affiliated with the WCTU (as well as reorganising the original club in Invercargill) and gathered over 4000 signatures for the Polyglot Petition.[21] Anne Ward took on the role of Provisional President and between September 1885 and January 1886 Ward travelled through the country delivering lectures on temperance and the work of the WCTU.[22] Ward established seven more branch unions by the end of January 1886:[23]