“MODERN GIRLS ARE WONDERFUL CREATURES”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1081, 19 September 1930, Page 4

“MODERN GIRLS ARE WONDERFUL CREATURES”

BUT LACK SPIRITUALISM COMMENT AT G.F.S. MEETING “It seems to me that many of the girls born during the war or immediately afterward are lacking in any deep spiritualism,” said the Rev. R. J. Stanton at the annual meeting of the Girls’ Friendly Society last evening‘‘l am not one of those who despair of the modern girl—l think she is a wonderful creature. At the same time I realise she is a very difficult problem. As regards susceptibility to spiritual appeal the tables have lately boen turned. There has been a conquerable decrease in the number of giris brought forward for confirmation and a considerable increase in the number of boys.” Discussing the problem of unemployment. Canon Grant Cowen Said the Girls’ Friendly Society acted as a standby to those girls who lost their positions. “It is very hard,” he continued, •’when a father of a family loses his work, but it is also very hard when a girl away from home loses hers. She is left feeling utterly stranded. It was a big disappointment to me that women were left out of the Unemployment Act. *‘l would like to see a strong effort made by women throLghcut New Zealand to insist that the benefits of the Act are carried still farther so that its provisions apply to women as well as men. “NOT PLAYED THE GAME” “Some of the City firms who have been cutting down their staffs have not quite played the game. Times are bad financially, I know, but is it not possible for firms that are paying large dividends to pay less and so retain their employees? There are many girls who have lost their positions in firms that they have been with for years. It has entailed much suffering. I hope that next vear women will be paying 30s under” the Act and thus receiving its benefits in times of stress.” Tho following officers were elected for the year:—President, Mrs. Averill: life members. Mesdames Maynard, Udy, Streater, Rattray, and Miss E. Brown; vice-presidents, Mesdames Hudson, Mac Murray and . Milsom; bon. diocesan treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Rogers; acting-lion- diocesan secretary, Mrs. C. F. Bennett; lion, lodge treasurer, Mrs. G. Coats; G.F.S. representative on National Council, Miss Jackson; sick members* department, Mrs. Culpan and Miss Blades: members of the council, Mesdames Bennett, Coats, Coleman, Fricker Gunn, C. Kissling, Knox, McCaw, Iveeble, McFarland, Russell. Rogers C 11. Tewsley and Young. Misses .Thompson. Haywood and Towlejunior committee. Misses Averill. An: drewes, Bennett. Golder, Grant Cowen Harrison. Haverfield, McFarland. Protheroe, Reid, Smith, Tuke and Watson; advisory board. Dr. and Mrs I arkes, Messrs. H. Gilfillan, J. J. Rogers J. j. Kingston, H. Goldie. A. E. Upton, A. R. Brett, C. F. Bennett, Archdeacon Simkin and Canon Grant Cowen trustees, Messrs. 11. Gilfillan, h A- E - Upton and -K. Brett, hon. solicitor, Mr. R. p\ wo ™ an superintendent of lodge, Miss Hunter; central representative for New Zealand, the Countess Ilardwicke. Among others the work of Mr. Horace Dyer, as hon. accountant, was greatly appreciated.