Family Holidays In Y.W.C.A.

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31548, 9 December 1967, Page 2

Family Holidays In Y.W.C.A.

From mid-December to the end of February, the Young Women’s Christian Association of Wellington will make holiday accommodation available for married couples and famine*.

Tins has been made possible because of the exodus of normal occupants of their new building for Christmas holidays.

The new Y.W.C.A. in Willis Street, has modem accommodation for some 160 residents. A large number of girls who use this accommodation are those attending university,

training college, polytechnic college, or are ballet students. All these return home for the Christmas holiday break, leaving the Y.W.C.A. residence half empty. Because of the desperate shortage of accommodation in the capital city, the Y.W.C.A. have decided to make available empty accommodation for married couples and families.

Major P. D. Young, the new business manager, says that this accommodation will be of particular benefit to the family man wishing to spend some time in Wellington, as it will provide an economy holiday for the whole family. The rates of board will be the same as normal transients and they are.—Dinner, bed and breakfast: $4 a person; bed and breakfast: $3.30 a person; dinner, bed and breakfast: $2l a person per week. Rates for children are.— Under two years: free; two years to under five years: quarter rates; five years to under 10 years: half rates; over 10 years: full rates.

The first two floors of the new residential building will be made available for this holiday accommodation, providing 33 single bedrooms and 14 double bedrooms.