SOCIAL SERVICE.
DEVELOPMENTS IN BRITAIN.
(Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 11
I® The annual report of the National' Council of Social Services describes the development of its work toward creat|i||jkg a new social order by means of gpbrious forms of communal activity. ! The report states that the occupa-, tional club movement has become a perKanent feature of the national life. About 900 clubs for men and 550 for Women hare memberships of. 100,000 Ifpjeh and 35,000 women, and the number MP e ®ployed members is steadily rising. In the first three months of 1938 •pproximately 22,000 classes for men Jttd women were held. Great progress •''its been made in providing community '' ' '<*ntres on new estates, thus dealing ' V - ' jWth social problems created in the past iwade by the rapid housing of large | i 4 passes of the population on estates in || the outskirts of older cities.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 189, 12 August 1938, Page 7
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