MESSAGE FROM LADY JELLICOE.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1921, Page 6

MESSAGE FROM LADY JELLICOE.

BEST WISHES FOR NEW PLYMOUTH HOSTEL CAMPAIGN. A message has been received from Government House, Auckland, in which Lady Jellicoe hs patroness of the New Zealand Field of the Y.WiC.A. of Australasia, expresses her interest in the fact.that a girls' hostel is. to be opened in New Plymouth. Her Excellency sends her best wishes for the success of the campaign which is to be launched to-day, and trusts t-hat the required amount of money may be raised.

The Soldiers’ Club has been generously made available for the daily- gatherings of the collectors for the Y.W.C.A. To-morrow Mrs. E. A. Walker will bo hostess at luncheon. Teas will be pro-, vided at 5.45 on the other days by the following hostesses: Ladies of the’ Whiteley Guild (Monday), Mrs. Duff (Tuesday), Mrs. List (Wednesday), Mesdames Alexander and Blundell (Thursday), Mrs. Claude Weston (Friday).

The thorough manner in which the Y.W.C.A. is carrying out the task or securing a girls’ hostel deserves success, and will no doubt achieve it. The great majority of the people of New Plymouth are sufficiently in sympathy with the object to give what they can afford, and ixx all probability the reluctant few will succumb to the of 90 women and girls, which is to begin to-morrow and continue throughout next .week. The specific object of this campaign is the securing of a further £2OOO towards the purchase of Chatsworth House. The organisation which has been set up is very thorough and no corner of the borough will be left out in the cold as far as this collection is concerned. A feature of the campaign will be a daily gathering of the collectors and organizers to report progress and compare note£ over a lunch or tea. Miss Florina Birch, the field organizing secretary for New Zealahd, will be the campaign general and Mrs. E. A. Walker fhe chief of teams. Uflie captains of the teams into whiclixthe collectors are to be organized will be Mesdames Ray Ambury, A. S. Allen, Sydney Burgess, A. George, A. Home, E. E. Honnor, Jenkins, Stocker and Thompson, and the Misses Arnold, Carter, Foote, Hamerton, Harrison and Norman.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE Y.W.OA A SHARE IN THE COMMUNITY LIFE. It used to be said that the Young Wunie.’i’s Christian Association was needed in the cities but n 5 in the smaller plages or towns, but during ihe war period the women of towns grew into consciousness of their power. This Was due in part to the participation that ■they had in the war itself, and to tlve economic growh that came during the war which revealed to them the increasing place that young women were to take place that young women were to take in the necessary work of towns, as well as of cities, in the future. With this new consciousness of their group power women began to see, as never before, that they ought to have a share of responsibility in community life. This may account for the number of towns in New Zealand which hjpe been asking for the Young Women’s Christian contribution to the life of the community. How often employers have expressed a desire for members of the Y.W.C.A. to till vacancies in their firms as employees because they have found them happier in themselves and better able to work together. The Y.W.C.A. is a serving organisation, which can touch community life at many points.