Y.W.C.A, REFUSES £5000

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23224, 23 June 1937, Page 16

Y.W.C.A, REFUSES £SOOO

DANCING AND CARDS (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, May 15. Mrs Caroline Stables, of Murray road, Wimbledon, left £SOOO on trust to the Blue Triangle Club, Wimbledon, oji condition that no dancing or card playing is permitted there. It was stated yesterday that the bequest had been refused. Miss Hilda Grenfell, president of the Young Women's Christian Associate i of Great Britain, in a statement explaining the refusal of the bequest, says: "It is the agreed policy of the association that every local centre should have complete freedom to carry on iis work in whatever way it deems best, unchecked by any superimposed rulers from central headquarters. " We cannot therefore consent to administer a trust which would put us in a position of enforcing what might be hampering restrictions on the freedom and development of the club, either now or in the future, though, in fact, at the present time the restrictions would not materially alter the present policy of the committee.

" We feel that while we must as a national association do everything in our power ta see the Wimbledon Y.W.C.A. does not suffer by our decision, and, although we cannot yet determine what might be the effect of our refusal to act as trustees, we are quite clear that we are right in so refusing."