Girls' Friendly Society.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 12, 1 June 1918, Page 90

Girls' Friendly Society.

A meeting of the Diocesan Council was held at the Lodge, Napier, on Wednesday, May Bth. It was decided to hold a conference of G.F.S. Associates m September or October, the date and speakers to be settled later. , It was agreed that Bible Searching Papers for members should again be set, and Deaconess Esther Brand -undertook to prepare a paper on ' ' The Scripture Rules and Counsels m the Guide Book." It was agreed to ask that the offertories m the parishes on the Annual Day of Intercession and Thanksgiving (Thursday, June 20th) should be given to the G.F.S. "War Work Fund (England). Miss Holmes was appointed assistant secretary to Mrs Stopford. Mrs Anderson gave an interesting account of the G.F.S. room, recently bought and furnished by the Hastings branch, and used by members as a rest and lunch room, as well as for meetings. A letter was then read from Lady Vincent, President of G.F.S. work m Northern and Central Europe, m which she expressed her thanks and that of her Council for the sum of £25 sent from Waiapu Diocese to the Foreign Lodges' Fund. She said : ' 'lt gives us a special sense of the warmth and comfort of G.F.S. friendship when it reaches us at a time like this." She also added: "Please give my hearty greetings to your Council and beg that if any of them' should visit England while I am still President they will surely let me know, that I may arrange a meeting between us." .