VICTORIA LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 288, 1 September 1931, Page 4

VICTORIA LEAGUE

Books for Lonely People At the last Victoria League committee meeting Mrs. Warburton occupied the chair in the absence of Lady Buckldton. The London headquarters wrote acknowledging introductions for ten members from the Wellington branch. Miss Drayton wrote that it had been hoped to establish a Victoria League in Fiji, but the Colonial Secretary had said that it would overlap with other Empire societies. However, a link had been formed in Suva with the Women s Club. It would now be possible to give mem*bers introductions to this club and the club had been invited to introduce their members in return. The headquarters had also offered to send literature to lonely people in Fiji. The children of a Marlborough country school had been linked up with the pupils of an isolated country school on the New South Wales border. The Marlborough teacher had written that her children were anxious to take up the corresponThanks for parcels of books sent after the book tea bad been received from the following—three country women, two on small farms, and one in a public works settlement, where she had said the neigh-

hours seemed to know when a parcel of books arrived and came for a loan of one - , ~ . / An elderly woman who could not afford to buy books wrote: “I am ever so thankful, as things are so dull for old people.” Two public school young men on farms sent thanks for the league’s kipd thoughtfulness, and thanks had been also,received from the Protection Society for Children’s books (which had been lent to a family whose father was ill but who equid read to them) ; from the Sailors’ Friend Society, and the Public Hospital. The principal of the Teachers’ Training College wrote giving the details of the last competition arranged tor the Victoria League's prizes for excellence in the use of good English in speaking. These had included the reading of selected passages iff prose, in poetry, and an impromptu speech.

The women members of the Mastferton Amateur Athletic Club held a successful dance in the Masterton Municipal Hall in aid of the Mayoress’s Tivo Garment Society on Saturday night. Mlnifie's Orchestra provided the music for the dancing. Extras were played by the Masterton Harrier Club Orchestra. The duties of M.C. were carried out by Messrs. J. Henderson and M. Devine. The supper arrangements were in the handi of a women’s committee under the direo tion of Mrs. J. V. Dolan.