"GIRLS' WEEK-END"

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 142, 16 June 1923, Page 8

"GIRLS' WEEK-END"

YOUNG CITIZENS' LEAGUE

EFFORT.

Efforts on behalf of boys are not unknown to the citizens of Wellington. Quite recently the Rotary Club organised and carried but a "week-end" for boys, which was not only much appreciated by the boys of the city, but which Illso put heart into those who have been working in their interests for many years back It has generally been felt that boys need more looking after than girls: but many changes have come over the community since the outbreak of the war, and it is submitted that our girls are not just where tlijy were before theyear 1914. As a result, a question which all social workers must now consider is whether the girls must not have as much attention given (| em as the boys have had. The Young Citizens' League has espoused the causs. of the girls. A special committee has been set up to consider the welfare of girls, and this committee has recommended that a "Girls' Week-end" be carried out, commencing on Friday, 22nd June, and finishing on Sunday, the 24th. The-effort is more especially for girls from the &ges of 12 to 18 years. On Friday night, at 'tfip,, Tepid Swimming Batlis, a- swimming tournament will be hold, at which all the competitors will be girls, and the audience, which will be admitted free of charge, will he confined to females. On Saturday night a free entertainment will be given in the Town Hall, at which the programme will be supplied by the various girls' societies and clubs in the city. Some very fine physical exercise items are included in the very varied programme. On Sunday the ministers of the city and suburban churches will preach sermons specially for the benefit of girls. The league has issued a, letter to mothers urging them to attend the services of their church with their daughters. (In Sunday afternoon a girls' rally will be i !" the Town Hall, at which suitable addresses will be given by lady speakers. Mothers and daughters are invited to this. Printed sheets of hymne will be provided, and it is expected that the gathering, will prove unique and inspiring-

Ihe whole of the expenses of the •carious functions are being provided by the Young Citizens' League, admission to all of them will be free, and no coDecaons will be taker up. A neat three-folder invitation, -with complete programme of all the gatherings, has been printed, and is now being issued to the schools, shops, warehouses factories, etc. Any girl who has not received one ma" obtain a pv f rom Mr . G Mitchell, Mrs. Brigadier Hoare, Miss Messenger, Mrs. Chatfield, Miss Dunlop, Y.W.GjA., illiss LoddeiyMiss Mac Lean birJs High School, Miss Williams. Miss llersnaw, or Miss Nicholls.