Y.W.C.A. HOSTEL FUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19344, 3 June 1926, Page 10

Y.W.C.A. HOSTEL FUND.

PROGRESS OF CAMPAIGN. SUM OF £4500 COLLECTED. Another £IOOO was collected yesterday by the women engaged in the campaign to raise funds for the proposed new Y.W.C.A. hostel in the city and the redemption of the debt on the holiday house-for girls at Blockhouse Bay., About 80 or 90 women assembled at» the Y.W.C.A. hall yesterday morning and organised themselves into teams to collect the ''women's division" quota. At lunch time the teams re-assembled and reported progress. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., addressed the gathering and commended the campaign to public notice. He spoke of the tremendous importance of interesting the community at largo in the welfare of the girls in its midst and congratulated the collectors on their public spirit. The funds so far collected total approximately £4500, of which about £1250 has been collected by the girls' division. This does not include the sums raised by the Karangahape Road Business Promotion i Society, which has undertaken to canvass the. business houses in Karangahape Road. A tea" attended by about 60 business girls, drawn from insurance and legal offices and banks, took placis at the Y.W.C.A. Club on Tuesday evening, when Miss Stevenson and Miss Begg spoke about the work that different groups of girls were already doing and asked for suggestions and .fresh ideas. A suggestion was made that they might really ! start building the house bv collecting "brides," each "brick" to represent £l. This idea met with general approval and the scheme is being adopted. Each. £1 collected will represent a brick for the house and the different offices represented will vie with one another to provide the most bricks, so that the house may be completely erected by the end of the campaign. Plans are afoot to have a model house on exhibition in a shop window in Queen Street and the exact stage that the building has reached will there be shown to the public. A committee of five representative girls was elected r.nd they will undertake the necessary arrangements. The.girls in one firm have'already been busy and there are hopes that one of the walls of the house will lie well under way early next week.