Welfare Worker

NZ Truth, Issue 1191, 27 September 1928, Page 6

Welfare Worker

PROMINENT m welfare work of every description is Mrs. G. W. Reid, president of the Citizens' Day Nursery, vice-president of the Victoria League, member of the Girl Guide executive, the Navy League, the Women's National Reserve — and goodr ness knows how many other praiseworthy movements. /■ . Mrs. Reid's home is a surprise packet m itself —a quaint old wooden place, built with the [■ stateliness , of other days and surrounded by a little garden full of pink and white camellia bushes. As just outside is the noise and bustle of Vivian Street, Wellington, the cool, high-ceilinged old rooms are a pleasant change; certainly there aren t many houses m the city where callers will . find soft gas-light, instead of modern electricity. . Mrs. Reid came out to New Zealand many years . ago, but it was during the war that her welfare work really She is a charming little lady, Very active and "fit," m spite of the fact that she has passed middle age, has white hair and doesn't attempt to ape the "new youth" of modern days. Her whole life is spent m quiet,-un-ostentatious good work— about which she can be persuaded to say very little— but she finds time to be a courteous and interesting hostess. v,