THE GIRLS’ REALM GUILD

Ladies' Mirror, Volume I, Issue 6, 1 December 1922, Page 13

THE GIRLS’ REALM GUILD

r THE Girls’ Realm Guild is well A known in Auckland for the good work, and for the help it gave in all branches of patriotic work during the war, and especially in the Allied Nations Fete held in the Town Hall in 1916, when nearly iIOOO was made and expended on comforts for New Zealand soldiers. This year the Guild has been reorganised, and is again working in real earnest under its very capable president, Miss Veronica Walsh. Thirteen years ago Auckland formed a branch of the British Girls’ Realm Guild, founded by the Bishop of London, with the object of showing girls in how many ways they could help others, especially girls who, through stress of circumstances, had to support themselves. The Auckland branch endeavours each year to help two or more girls, who could not otherwise afford it, to finish their education or train in some way that will enable them to earn a living. Also the Guild endeavours to relieve suffering and privation, and to supply means of restoring health to the sick. The Guild is unsectarian, and has a motto to live up to: “What is worth having is worth sharing.” This year the Guild has kept a girl at school and supplied her with a complete school outfit. Another is being helped to regain her health. The children of two families have been completely outfitted with clothes and several cases of distress relieved somewhat by gifts of large hampers of groceries. Unfortunately this year’s activities have been restricted, owing to shortness of funds, but the committee hope to remedy this by holding a large open air fete in the near future.