POLICE CLUBS FOR GIRLS
The idea of Police and Citizens' Girls' Clubs was revived when Miss Gracie Fields raised over £600 by an auction sale after a concert in Sydney Town Hall, writes a Sydney correspondent. The money, it was suggested, should form the nucleus of a fund for police girls' clubs. Police officers said that when such clubs had been suggested previously the difficulties, without the support of women's welfare and other organisations, had been so great ■ that the idea was dropped. It was said that if clubs for adolescent girls, similar to existing boys' clubs,.were established in Sydney and suburbs, at least 12,000 girls would be provided with healthy mental and physical recreation, and many of them would be kept from the streets. In New South Wales there are 21 women police, and they spend most of their time watching wayward girls. Fourteen of the women police are in the city, four in the suburbs, two are at Newcastle, and one at Katoomba.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 10
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