THE NEEDS OF A BUSINESS GIRL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 253, 21 July 1919, Page 3

THE NEEDS OF A BUSINESS GIRL

Unless one has actually been through the experience, it is hard to realise the numerous difficulties that arise when a girl takes up a city position. During the war, the rates for accommodation in nil classes of boarding establishments .have slowly been advancing, but tho wages of girls working in factories,' shops and offices have not rison proportionately, _ Therefore,' unless a girl ■holds a position of somo responsibility, carrying good remuneration, she has to put up with inferior board and residence. The Young Women's Christian Association, realising that this was most detrimental to the girls' health, as well a« to her intellectual and social welfare, decided to open hostels, w'here a girl could get clean, -healthy accommodation at rates that her salary would warriuit. The committea ia row onlarginj ifa city jictiyitiies by purchasing a tjow building in Broughnm Street, which, after extensive alterations and additions havo been comploted.. will b» capable of accommodating 80 boarder 3. In Jjoulo.a!:t' Street, tho association is rooccupying its old 'home, which v;us generously handed over to the Y.M.C.A. for use as a soldiers' hostel, but which, having completed its noble work for "our boys," is now vacant. Hero again, considerable alterations and additions karo to bo effected, whiclj will enable the building to provide club, rest and lunch rooms, a social hall, and gymnasium. J!15,000 is urgently required to defray tho expanses, far which a public appeal is now being; made. It needs but littlo thought or. tfio part of men nnH women to fiee thnt t}>o activities of TTie Y.W.C.A. in tho past are of a most admirable chivraclei-, and that it is tho duty of all to support enoh r. needed institution, where our girla we properly earci for and (ducaier! to higher idijals, whilst away from th« infitionce of their own hornet and parents. Post your donations at onco. tux 1!io money is needed immediately, Tho tre'a."uror'is Mr. A. i>. Bayfeikl, Box 1071, Wellington, to whom duteiptiona should be sent.-{Published b.y arrangement'.)