GOVERNMENT TO HELP Y.W.C.A. AND Y.M.C.A.

Chronicle (Levin), 14 January 1947, Page 7

GOVERNMENT TO HELP Y.W.C.A. AND Y.M.C.A.

-Press Assoctation

TO PROVIDE BOARD FOR YOUTH AWAY FROM HOME.

By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, Jan. 13. The Minister of Finance (Hon. W. Nash) stated today that because of the need to provide good accommodation under good conditions for young people who had to leave thoir homes • to take up work in the cities the Government had decided to assist the Y.W.C.A. and. Y.M.CbA. throughout New Zealand where additional residential accommodation is provided by various local associations. Under this policy it has been decided to assist the Y.W.G.A. to erect new residential . -accommodation in Wellington. When the Association is in a position to go ahead * with its project for the construction of a new building m Boulcott Street to provide residential accommodation and other activities the Government will provide one third of the cost of providing the additional residential accommodation on condition that the Association itself thxough voluntary contributions will find one third of the cost whiie the remaining one third will be made available by way of a loan from Government sources on the normal lending terms of the State Advances Corporation. Such financial assistance for the provision of additional residential accommodation by the Y.W.C.A. will be available to other branches of this association, also to branches of the Y.M.C.A. throughout New Zealand in cases where the respective local associations plan to provide additional residential accommodation.