THE FRIENDS' HOSTEL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 130, 25 February 1908, Page 3

THE FRIENDS' HOSTEL.

; at present the.airis full:of talk about hostels.-' The. Y.W.C.A.. is looking building. : s'uitabl« for a' hostel for girls ..in ■offices and shop?.' Tho and"Training ■ Colleges hive established V hostel.for women students; .and.now conies tho Society ■of Friends .with a hostel for children attending tho secondary schools, a' thing that has long been required. Near tho. . top; '•: of Murphy Street, is. a. gate..with a plato, on .it bearing tho words Friends' Hostel," mid this leads to a: piece of ground with a large, roomy house, where there is accommodation -for eighteen boarders, vlt "is not intended that the hoarders' shall be girls'only.* "Downstairs -are: rooms that,, if . necessary," will bo assigned to boys, while the upper rooms aro ■ready for girl "boarders. "Tho two ladies Vn-ho have como out from England,: commissioned by tho Scciotyof Friends at Homo to'establish this hostel, will do their, best 'to mako it-a reaj home for the children committed, to •thoir'-charge,- and, so far' as •' one-'can" judge," the . childron' should havo a good . time. ' The main-object in establishing the Hcmo was to form some sort of connection..between the children of Quaker families and tlio -'Church; ; which has not been officially, represented here, jbut children ot'iany -denomination, will be received. ,Tho"'..■hostel" is-.-very" 1 conveniently situated for pupils/ attending .the. Wellington Girls'-. College, r-and it is. very, near, all ,tho 'trams.-,'Jt,. is, ;;to"bo hoped l , that the,' venture will bp.thoroughly, successful., , ■ :