SPORTS GROUNDS FOR CITY GIRLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 6

SPORTS GROUNDS FOR CITY GIRLS

BIG DEMONSTRATION HEALTHY YOUNG WOMANHOOD

THE large assembly of girls *t 1 Blandford Park on Saturday afternoon again drew attention tc the necessity for a sports ground for their own sex within the c»t>Members of the Girl’s Athletic Association have long recognised tn»* want. Together with the Lsd* e# Hockey Association, the Bask* ' ball Association, and the Y.W.CA* they Have brought the matter uno the notice of the City Council* The movement has been instrumen’ in granting extra playing fieia? * Mount Hobson. The proceeds of sip* lar days as Saturday’s meeting win devoted to obtaining grounds cx - i sively for girls. The Auckland Girls’ Athletic asciation, with Miss Jean Begg a ' head, was inaugurated for the purp of giving girls an opportunity of ing into friendly contest in a manner to the features arrangea • the Inter-House Girls’ Sports’ A pS u tion, which caters only for the ployees of soft goods houses- “ Hey, wait a minute. Hold on. Five hundred girls, clad in »P° attire, paused for the fraction o second like the crest of a br«* before it crashes. Too late. , A whirling mass of legs ****** passed by the indignant Pjj® j grapher, who Canute-like had a to impede their progress. “To the right , v^n The order of the marshal naa given. On they dashed, past the cam man, whose shouts went unhcea • healthy, vigorous, pulsating young - Zealanders. . vs of It says something in these oo r petting parties and cocktails, tn - % girls can enter one with an s ,tn v -,.«?tfcy realm of sport which makes for n motherhood. . aT -4tl» Health and recreation, togetne^ al a valuable training in team wj>r» is the aim of the association. ner in which Mrs. Montgomery i Y.W.C.A.) controlled the grana sembly of all teams was dence of the good work already plished. in th« Each girl marched proudl) parade. as th* At the head of every section w* house flag. These flags '‘ e A aloft as the Port Auckland played “God Save the King.