WORKING WOMEN'S CLUB AND KITCHEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 1 July 1932, Page 2

WORKING WOMEN'S CLUB AND KITCHEN

(To the Editor) Sir, —I do so want again to thank all kind friends who have helped our club in any way whether with food, clothing or parcels of any kind. Also those who come and visit'us and suggest plans and listen to our hopes and dreams for the future., I try to write personally to each one but my handwriting is atrocious and the Club is somewhat noisy in which to concentrate for correspondence. I realise I am a “homey” (I love the name), also a dreamer (due to my Irish ancestry), but living in dreams I have been able when the tragedies and realities of life have come my way to treatthem as nightmares which vanish with the dawn. I have a dream now of a Y.W.C.A. Hostel for women and girls. There is a very grave need for such an institution ih Nelson.

There are many houses in this town as overcrowded as some of our London slum quarters and the evil 's growing with disastrous moral consequences. I know better than most- people how wonderfully generous Nelson people are when real need is brought to their notice, but such a scheme as a hostel is beyond private enterprise and is almost a matter for the whole town to discuss. No work on earth produces a higher rate of profit than that expended on women, girls and children. Mrs Fox has more than once stressed the same point in her letters.—l am, etc. , BEATRICE LUCRE. Nelson, Ist July.