SOCIAL WELFARE

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1920, Page 4

SOCIAL WELFARE

A gre?.t deal of quiet, effective work is being accomplished in Wellington, by those .who for some- little time have interested themselves in tho provision of residential, "clubs" and special accommodation houses for girls and young, women employed in the city. Such work is deserving of support, equally as much as that other branch of it—the exercise of similar guardianship over the welfare of youths who couje to the city to cross the threshold of commercial and professional life. Young women in city occupationsl—the number diverted to this form of livelihood may well-be deplored —have not the easiest task in securing quiet, suitable lodgings such as will match their slender means. People who have private accommodation to let prefer, it is said, boarders of the other sex,'and girls are too often forced,to seek rooms at the larger boarding houses and private hotels. Life, with an income attenuated by the presant-day costly charges, and tho loneliness'of necessary exclusiveness, is not very bright, and the welcome attractions of wholesome, friendly society which the clubs provide, the opportunities of making sympathetic friendships, and the lower sustenance fees and other advantages which these establishments offer, have made them so popular that the promoters have every reason to be gratified with their activities. While the present .accommodation stress and general conditions prevail, too much interest cannot be bestowed upon work of this description.