Looking After Lonely Girls

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 721, 22 July 1929, Page 13

Looking After Lonely Girls

HELP FOR SERVANTS WORK OF BUREAU Life in London is to be less lonely , for the working girl from the provinces. This is the promise of the Central Council for the Social Welfare of 1 Girls and Women in London, who have opened, at No. 117, Piccadilly, a central bureau to help and befriend girls coming to London from a distance to take up work. The bureau, which has the support of ail the societies working among girls in London, is the sequel to a departmental inquiry instituted by the Home Office last winter. Two things are desired by the organising officials—publicity for their enterprise and money to enable it to be extended. “We want every girl thinking of taking up work in London to know of tlie existence of the bureau,” a woman official told a representative of “The Daily Chronicle.” “We advise on the nature of the work to be taken up and on all matters arising out of how girls strange to London and without friends .or relatives here, can best spend their leisure hours.” A staff is being kept busily occupied in answering queries from all parts ; of Great Britain and the Continent. Only recently, for instance, a young French girl student planning to take a holiday course in London, wrote asking for a list of residential hostels. A list was sent to her at once. Girls for whom the bureau is specially catering are domestic servants and business girls. They are being put in touch with desirable social clubs and generally advised on the local facilities available for them. A number of district bureaux, it is understood, are to be established in suburban areas.