CIVIC LEAGUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18534, 19 October 1923, Page 12

CIVIC LEAGUE.

A meeting of the Civic League was held in the Business Girls* Club-room on Wednesday evening. The president, Miss A Basten, occupied the chair. A letter was read from. Mrs. Scanlan a member of the Ed*ndale School Committee, in which she referred to work which had been done by that committee, including the raising of a fund for the erection of gates and pillars as a memorial to the old boys of the. school > who fought in the great war, as well as the furnishing of teachers' rest roomj, both in the main building and in the infant ■ school. ■■',; , £% ." _, ,, K The resignation was received of .Mrs,. Paxton from the sub-convenershrp of the Women's Public Works - Committee. The work of this committee forms, a.! very important bran-ch of .the league activities, and is practically directed toward the election of women' to public bodies. • ; . ."' ■ v itReference was made to. many public abuses which called for reform, and sid which women -S as housekeepers would be particularly interested, These included the hygienic- handling of meat, and a more healthy method of disposing of rubbish in the city, v particularly in smnmei; time, when flies were everywhere. . ' A new committee was formed as follows :—Mrs. H. Mac Lean, convener; - Mrs. E. Gaudin, Mrs. A. Strcttonj Mrs. - D. Paxton/ and':Mrs;:Nem. :r^, £~. -; A letter was sent to Mrs. W. Bush, thanking her for her hospitality in serv- ' ing supper at the ,i combined : meeting of women's societies, held in the Lyceum Club last month. There were present at ,~' : 1,2 meeting fivvv-members of school com-, : mtoees, Mrs. E. f A. E. Gaudin, Sirs. : -i Warnock, Mrs. F. E. Michaels, and Mrs. Harvey. The subject ;" v.! r4m schools , was discussed and £it was /stated thai, even ip the new schools the classes were too large for the class-rooms ■ provided.'' /■ . 'It was decided that the next meeting of the league should be held in the 7 afternoon. ;An interesting; paper was read by £ Miss Basten, in which shs proposed ; that the scenic committee of the league should become instrumental "... in bringing to the K - realisation of citizens.the wealth'of ; bene- -; fits -conferred on them by . arranging a cinema .portrayal s of Auckland benefactors .'and a display of their gifts to the city. This noble picture gallery would include "% -Sir. George Grey, Sir John-Logan Campbell, land such i names as Cost! oy, Dil- \ worth,McKelvie, > Judge ''J. Gillies, Mason, % McLanghlan. .:'• Mackechnie, Knax, iH. ' Smith, Canghey, Myers, ■;'•.; Shaw, Leys, Pre+.t, Spragg, .Atkinson, Goldie, and ! ma-.y others Who are still with us. ;V/ i ■■■ ':■ There are the : ; forest - glories; given to ;'■' us by Messrs. Wesley Spragg, ~ Atkinson,' . and- "Goldie ;i Corawailis Park; the fine Betting of Myers ■.;Kindergarten ; the Ran- . urly Koad Reserve ; '•* the -, playgrounds of Potter's Park the,,- Princes Street Re-.

:'■_'-■:•. serve;'•, : Mr. J; Cauehey's fine site .tor ? ';■ a l?aiitar.« Hospital; and within : the province, the magnificent giants of cTrotin*. '''":':_ eon's Park. [Then 1 there ire treasures oi ; ,•': art; land : beauty housed in : : the Art ; Gallery, Public Library, and Museum, whose reproduction;* on the screen would be a re- , velation to citizens. There are Costley's '* • seven institutions-: The Institute and /.:; Museum PubhV Library; Hospital; ;;. Orphan's Home; Costley Home Sailors' Home ; Boys' Institute; Jubilee Institute for, the Blind'; 11.: pbell's ;Kindergarten, : Creche and v .muT«;;tf; |: Society Vc of -Arts ; Building;Vo!':*'■:,'s .-'.'; Institute},. Alex- • andra '■-: Convalesced Home; ;' Knox :.: Home t ■-. for '{% Incurables:; ■'• and Leys "Institute. There *are also 'the; Helen Boyd Statuary and the splendid statue of John Burns; *• the line organ at the Town:■; Hall; the Town Hail.clock;; and gifts of swings ;:,;': and > games for : . children's play. \ :■;'-'; ■ ■ - '