WOMEN’S COMMUNITY HALL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 932, 27 March 1930, Page 10

WOMEN’S COMMUNITY HALL

PROVISION AT TAKAPUNA OLD FUND TO BE USED A women’s community hall is to be established in Taka puna, the fun : amounting to £750 held by women? organisations in that district to be used for the purpose. This decision was reached at a meeting of contributors yesterday. Mrs. J. W. Williamson presided. The fund, said Mr. A. M. Gould, w raised in 1921 and 3 922, for the pui pose of commemorating the patriot; work done by the women of the district during the Great War. At th inception of the movement its objec was somewhat nebulous, but eventually it was decided that the memoria should take the form of a hospital The principal factors in the creation of the fund were a garden fete held i: the grounds of Mrs. W. R. Wilsor which realises £374, and a dramat: performance by the Lyceum Clui which raised £ 102. But it had been found that the su: in hand * was insufficient for the era tion and equipment of a hospital analso that the Auckland Hospital Boarc which would automatically have th control of such an institution if it wer in existence, had not seen its way : provide for a hospital on the Nor: Shore, and had definitely intimate* that it could not give any undertakinto establish or maintain a public ho. c pital at Takapuna. At the same tiro the board intimated that it makeno claim upon the women’s fund. With the original aim impractical some use was sought and ’he objec: determined upon was the establish ment of a women’s community hall & Takapuna, which would be the head quarters for women’s organisations non-political and unsectarian, const; tuted to promote patriotic, educations and charitable work among women ar. girls. It could be used as a first-ai 1 and emergency hospital and more par ticulariy by the St. John Ambulance the Plunket Society, the Girl Guide Association, the League of Mothers, th* local Women’s Progressive League aro the Mayoress’s Relief Committee.

A suitable site for such a building in Killarrey Street, has been donate by Mrs. W. R. Wilson, and the -Attor-ney-General, who has certain contusing powers in respect of funds of thinatpre, has approved the diversion o the moneys to the provision ol <■ women’s centre such as is projectedA resolution was passed appro*®? the proposed change of purposes, an< providing that the fund should tvested In two trustees—the treasury for the time being of the Takapum Women’s Progressive League and tnDominion Commissioner for the too being of the Girl Guides. They be responsible to a committee con®* 1 ' ing of themselves and six other robbers appointed by the executive mittee of the Women’s League and district executive of the Girl GuiaAssociation.