Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. WORK

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1935, Page 5

Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. WORK

MONTHLY BOARD MEETING. GIRL CITIZENS’ GATHERING. At the monthly meeting of the New Plymouth Y.W.-Y.M.C.A. board this week it was announced, that Miss N. Moncrieff, secretary of the Y.W.C.A. at Pekin, China, would visit New Plymouth in September and address the annual meeting. Reports from the committees and from the general secretary were received and it was decided that Y.W.C.A, players should affiliate with the Taranaki hockey and basketball associations. Affiliation with the World Federation of Business and Professional Women will be made at a later date, but the matter of affiliation with the League of Nations Union was deferred temporarily. Those present at the meeting were Mesdames A. Alexander (in the chair), F. Therkleson, A. S. Clark, O. Blundell, A. G. Johnston, J. McGregor, S. Jenkins, L. Brown, Misses L. Harrison, G. A. Drew and M. Greenwell (general secretary). Twelve girls and two councillors, Misses T. Slyfield and D. Mather, were enrolled at the first community gatherin r of the Girl Citizens, held in Community House on Wednesday night. Seventy-one girls and 30 parents were present. Miss M. Greenwell presided and members of the Haeremai Club acted as hostesses. At the close of the opening ceremony the girls joined in a “circle of light,” representing fellowship with girls of other nations. Demonstrations of routine club work occupied the latter half of the evening. The Wayfarers’ Club debated,

the Mahitika Club played Maori stick games, the Makamaka Club demonstrated plastic posing, and the Marama Club showed how io conduct a business meeting.