CLUB FOR LONELY WOMEN.
A residential club for elderly women who would otherwise leadi lonely lives is being built near Sunningdale, and will be opened next spring. When it is ready 100 women over fifty-five will be able to take up residence there. . Lady Bertha Dawkins. Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen, and one of the workers for the club, said to an interviewer: “The club is intended for those who have an income; of between £SO and £IOO a year. They will each pay 6s 6d a week for a room and 10s for board.” The club will be run on the lines of other women’s clubs, and l will provide most of the usual amenities.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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118CLUB FOR LONELY WOMEN. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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