GIRLS, REALM GUILD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1551, 21 September 1912, Page 11

GIRLS , REALM GUILD.

GENERAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the General Committee of the Girls' Realm Guild was held in the club room, Messrs, Herdman and Eirkcnldie's Building, Ballance Street, on Thursday .evening Inst, Mrs. Wilford presiding.. The reports and bal-ance-sheets of the .various New Zealand Centres were read, received, and adopted. These showed that the interest of former years in the guild work had been well maintained; that numerous oases of distress and wont had teen afforded necessary relief, and that many kind friends had assisted with donations and in other ways. The following officers were elected for the coming year:—President, Mrs. Wilford; general secretary, lire. Claridge; general treasurer, Mrs. V. Mueller; committee, Misses Wallace, Lambert, M. F. Young, J. Newenham, and E. Hurley. The. meeting concluded with a voto of thanks to Mrs. Wilford for presiding, to the retiring officers, and to the"press. Annual Meeting of Wellington Centre. Tho annual general meeting of the Wellington Centre of the Girls' Realm Guild was also held last evening. The annual report showed that the Girls' - Realm Guild in Wellington was now represented by one centre of sG\members (working) and 8 associates. The two. centres, Lady Plunket and Kia Ora, having amalgamated on March °G, 1012. During the year two fetes were held, the one realising ,£2O and the other £20 also. At Christmas time both centres forwarded parcels of toys,' sweets, comforts,, gramaphone records, fruit/flowers, Christmas puddings, etc., to twelve institutions, including tho leper station at Quail Island. Private cases were also assisted and literature sent to lighthouses, hospital, and the Otaki sanatorium. Increased membership, owing to the amalgamation of the two centres, necessitated tho obtaining of a club room. Members have been asked to belong to one of the following committees: Visiting - (the sick and the poor), entertainment (giving concerts at homes), sewing (making clothes to give away), collecting and distributing of clothes. The Entertainment Committee has given concerts at the Convalescent Home, Victoria Ward; Home for. Aged Needy; Ohiro Home, and Alexandra Home.

Parcels of clothing (second-hand and new) have been given to Ohiro Home, Buckle Street Homej Sister Constance oi St. Mark's, Dish'ict Nurse, besides various, private'fariiilies'whq -hadi Ireen men? tidned by members. Besides various sums of money paid to people in times of urgent need, a sum of 106. a month goes.towards educational needs for a student from the general fund. ' The guild thanks various friends who have made contributions of magazines and money; Mr. Lambert, for making two box ottomans; Miss Easson and the Frivolity Company, for offering to give an entertainment towards funds for the fete in November; and Miss Carroll, for kindly lending her garden for the feto last year. lady, Islington has consented to be patroness to the centre during the time she is in New Zealand. The election of officers resnlted.as follows:—Secretary, Miss W. 1. Stevens; treasurer, Miss

Marie Young; committee, Mieses Mueller, M. F. Young, Bull, Hugo, Wallace. la curious circumstances, a fine new ecnoolhas been built at tho little town of Feodorina, in Russia. The townfolk erected it from the proceeds of a voluntary tax of Id. per glass of vodka consumed which they imposed on themselves for a whole .year. During the past thirty years over three million oxen have been received at the London cattle markets from America.