Y.W.C.A.

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 83, 2 January 1930, Page 15

Y.W.C.A.

GIRL CITIZEN CONFERENCE. The sessions of the conference continued on Monday. Instead of the ordinary rising bell the girls were awakened each morning by the camp choir, which walks round the various dormitories singing a morning song. Before breakfast all the girls take part in eurythmics, which take the place of the more stereotyped physical exercises. Conference prayers were taken outside, and after those the girls gathered in their various study groups for the continuation of their study—“ Calling the Plan of (lie Maker Out.” The latter part of the morning was spent in the business of the council hour. This council is the executive of the conference and is conducted by the girls themselves and chaired by Ute national chief counsellor. Each delegation of girls has one vote. All matter relating to their movement were freely discussed. After dinner the whole conference assembled on the lawn in front of the school to be photographed. Several groups were taken, including one of a eurytlimie group. The rest of the afternoon was spent in the work of the “In? terest Groups” of choral speaking mid eurythmics. and in preparation for dramatics. Each community group was given a subject to dramatise, and only two hours in which to prepare it. The girls worked hard and in consequence had a really splendid and original programme to offer the rest of the conference in the evening. The subjects taken wore two parables—that of the “Lost Coin” and of the “Merchant Seeking Goodly Pearls.” They were allowed to give either a modern or a Biblical interpretation of their subject, and the ingenuity they showed was really most creditable. These dramatics were for cup events, and the winning team was Auckland, who most suceesfully dramatised the finding of the pearl of groat price. During the evening the winners of the cup events in the handwork competition for each community were announced— Anckinnd first, Dunedin second, tVhangarei third.

Mrs. Skinner, conference hostess, took Vespers and talked to the girls on the finding of hanniness through work.