Y.W.C.A. NOTES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2206, 20 July 1914, Page 3

Y.W.C.A. NOTES

■—* ~ . ' The winter session of activities are in full swing at the Young Women's Christian Association. ! In addition to tho usual, devotional meetings and Bible classes, the educational classes 'are showing an increased membership.' The examination for tho students wlio have been studying under Dr. Robert Stout, the first aid course, took place at tho Y.W.C.A. last Wednesday. ..Tho homo nursing course will begin after a week's respite. The debate on Homo Rule was greatly .enjoyed, and some excellent speeches were made.. Mrs. Hutchin, who has spent somo years in Cook Island as a missionary* will give an address at tie Y.W.C.A. on Sunday afternoon.. Miss Hoard, national president of tho Young Women's Christian Association for Australasia, and Mrs. Sully, vicepresident, are. on their way to America and England. They will visit tho Y.W.C.A. headquarters at Toronto, New York, and London, with a view to finding secretaries for some of thc_ Australian centres .where there is special need. Miss Nina-Brentnall, 8.A., student secretary of the Y.W.C.A., Calcutta, is at present in Melbourne. She took a holiday on her return to Australia after her New Zealand tour, and since then, sho has-been doing deputation work-in Adelaide, Ballarat, ami Oolong. Brisbane, Sydney, and Hobart have yet to be visited.