Girls’ Club filling a social niche

WE hear a great deal these days on the need for the exercise of public spirit in the interests of the social welfare of the community, and concerning the desirability of educating the rising generation along paths that lead to healthy mental and moral development. Endeavours in such a direction must necessarily be to a large extent experimental, and it is not easy to launch undertakings on a tentative footing. In all such campaigns, however, it is practice that counts rather than theory. Given a sufficiency of faith and enthusiasm, much may be

accomplished. An instance in point is the Girls’ Social Club, which, established in Dunedin 12 months ago, has emerged most creditably, as proceedings at the first annual meeting have demonstrated, from what must be considered the most trying stage of its existence. The club represents an eminently practical plan to remove the reproach that nothing is being done to provide wholesome and desirable recreation for the girls of the city. Its aim is to exert an influence that will be in every sense helpful and beneficial to those coming under it. The promoters of the enterprise are entitled to every credit for the results that have been thus far achieved.