MISS JENNIE STREET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21505, 31 May 1933, Page 5

MISS JENNIE STREET

GIRLS' LIFE BRIGADE -fLiss Jennie Street, one of the vicepresidents of the International Girls' Life Brigade, with headquart-ers in Loudon, recently arrived in New Zealand to attend the general meeting of the New Zealand Society of Friends. Miss Street was glad to find that, instead of the one company of the brigade thatgreeted her on her arrival in Dunedin in 1929. there are now a good many companies, several of which are in the North. Wellington has a battalion, she stated, and the latest addition is in connection with the Beresford Street Congregational Church in Auckland. The movement is international and interdenominational, she explained, with -many features common to other girls' organisations, but its promoters felt that it was the best of all because no company could be organised apart from some church or some church organisation. The brigades are particularly interested in the promotion of international friendship. Their motto is, " To save life," and whatever tends to conserve life and to keep it at its highest level from child welfare to the study of the Scriptures, receives encouragement at its hands. In Latvia Miss Street found the organisation very enthusiastically taken up. As in New Zealand, the girls had a fine physique and were very fond of outdoor sport and outdoor life in general. They loved the motto so much, continued Miss Street, that they had made it the foundation for a ceremonial and they repeated at all their meetings " We Save." The moral and spiritual aspect of the words were specially stressed. Miss Street is a member of the Society of Friends and is much interested in the growth of the woman movement all over the world. Especially has she been struck by the advance made in such countries as Czecho-Slovakia. She is, however, very glad to be back in New Zealand and hopes to remain here for about a year.