Leaders To Visit Whangarei

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1941, Page 3

Leaders To Visit Whangarei

Y.W.C.A. ACTIVITIES

Following the seventh triennial convention ol the Y.\VX.A. of New Zealand, certain of the members of the convention are to visit Whangarei. The National Youth Secretary of the New Zealand Y.W.C.A. (Miss J. D. Campbell, of Canada) arrives in Whangarei on Monday for the week, and she will confer with clubs, leaders and committee members concerning club programme and developments. Miss Campbell, in her two years’ term in New Zealand, has done much to consolidate and extend the girls’ club activities, as was shown by the comprehensive report of girls’ work received at the national convention.

The national convention-, in placing on record their appreciation of the value ol Miss Campbell’s work, has invited her to stay on for a further two years after the expiration of her present xhree-year term, in order to secure continuity of programme and development. The chairman of the National World Fellowship Committee (Miss E. Watson), who recently visited the Y.W.C.A. World’s Council meeting in Geneva before it transferred to Washington, U.S.A., and also has visited Fiji, is an authority on the conditions affecting women and children in Europe. With Miss Campbell she will address a public meeting next Wednesday. The Business Girls’ Club and the Business and Professional Women’s Club are holding a dinner in their honour on Wednesday night, at which Miss Campbell and Miss Watson will be the speakers. Miss Watson and Miss Campbell both took a prominent part in the Y.W.C.A. convention, when policy concerning girls’ work and youth work, and the responsibility of the association today to women in Great Britain, China and Europe were questions of major importance. Entries for the Y.W.C.A. table setting display, to be held in the Farmers’ Trading Company showroom from next Wednesday, have been received from many firms and organisations and individual people. Some are novel, such as the “all nations table,’’ while others are formal, such as the "old-fashioned table.’’