NEEDS OF YOUTH
WOMEN'S FORUM DISCUSSION
An address on the needs of youth was given by Dr. Elaine Gurr, at a meeting of the Women's Forum on Saturday morning. Dr. Gurr said the adolescents of to-day were assisted mainly by three great institutions, the home, the Church and the school, and also very important subsidiary organisations such as youth centres, vocational guidance, Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A., Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, St. John Ambulance Association and the Red Cross Society. The reconstructive work of these institutions, however, was in certain cases undermined by the lack of home discipline and control. In an open discussion which followed, members of the forum considered that tho main channel through which most reconstructive and helpful work for the needs of youth could be accomplished was vocational guidance and the use of leisure.
Thanks were expressed by Mrs. Victor Mncky to Miss Ellen Melville, who had framed the forum's constitution, and to Mrs. L. W. Metcalfe, honorary secretary of the organisation. The forum has gone into recess until March.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24142, 8 December 1941, Page 2
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