Y.W.C.A. Activities

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 6

Y.W.C.A. Activities

Although the days are still warm, it is time we started to plan our leisure time hobbies for the long winter evenings, and with these in view the Y.W.C.A. has planned a varied and most interesting programme for both the younger girl and hep older sister. The new Margaret Morris Movement classes under the direction of Miss Marjory Bell, are again well established as a popular form of physical culture. As well as classes for matrons, business gjrls and women this year there will ■be classes for schoolgirls and children. The ballroom dancing class, for men and girls, with Miss Nancy Rabe as instructress, promises to be particularly attractive again this year. Those desiring to learn the latest steps, as well as both modern and some of the old dances, will be delighted with the plans made for this class, which commences next Thursday. For those wishing the study of more cultural subjects, the French classes for beginner and more advanced students, under the capable leadership of Madame B. Finlayson, commence on Tuesday. The Y.W.0.A., with the co-operation of Madame Finlayson, is also offering an excellent opportunity for girls with a little knowledge of the French language, to improve their conversational powers by'the inauguration of a French club. German classes for both beginners and more advanced students, with Dr. Greta Short, are proving as popular as ever. Groups are also being formed for handcrafts, choir singing, play-reading, bridge, and dressmaking. An advertisement in this issue gives particulars of these activities, and further inquiries will be welcomed by the association. Returned From Abroad Miss A. W. Whitelaw, formerly headmistress of the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School and of Wycombe Abbey School, Buckinghamshire, England, and latterly head of Talbot Settlement, Camberwell, returned to Auckland by the Aorangi. Miss Whitelaw is with her sisters at Arney Road, Remuera, and probably will be in New Zealand for a long visit. The friends of Miss lona Garven, formerly of the nursing staff of the Wanganui Public Hospital, will be interested to learn that she has accepted an appointment for two years on the staff of the Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji.