Y.M.C.A. PRESIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1928, Page 8

Y.M.C.A. PRESIDENT.

MR C. H. FURNESS NOMINATED ANNUAL MEETING TO-MORROW PAST YEAR'S WORK REVIEWED. After a lengthy term as president of the Auckland Young Men's Christian Association, Mr. W. J. Holdsworth is retiring from office, and at the annual meeting of members to-morrow evening Mr. C. H. Furness will be nominated as president for the ensuing year. In the 73rd annual report the directors state that as regards the number of members the association maintains the high standard of recent years. Of a total of 1778 members 601 are boys, 241 belong to the younger men's division, 760 are senior members and 176 are sustaining members. The directors state that the annual revenue did not come up to expectations, more especially in* regard to the receipts in the house department, and on the year's working a deficiency of £762 was shown. The overdraft at the bank was £4333, as compared with £3488 in 1927. It is pointed out that the amount was increased by the winding-up of the Glen Eden branch and the disbursement of certain trust funds. Attention is also directed to the need for renovations and refurnishing in the YJWLC.A. building. An outstanding feature of the past year, the report states, has been the erection ojf a new lodge at the Y.M.OA. boyg , camp at Hunua through the kindly action of the Auckland Rotary Club in collecting a sum of £800 towards the cost of the work. The lodge would make for comfort and efficiency at the various camps, and its design was a tribute to the architect, Mr. B. B. Hooper. Extended mention is made In the report of various forms of community servwe—m military camps, in meeting immigrants in helping to care for boys been before the Children's Court, and in many other ways. The association had acted as local representative for the Flock House scheme and had been associated with the Rotary Club <in its sponsoring of boys from CJnst* Hospital, England, and tt£ Church of England public school boys' scheme. Many dub and gymnasium leaders had been provided for service in different pacts ol Auckland.

Reference is made to the service which has been rendered by the Optimists' Club, to the sound work which has been carried on in the younger men's division, to the great activity in the boys' division and to the reviving interest in the physical department of the work. Inside and outside the building 1000 gymnasium class members were cared for. The athletic section of the association's activities are enlarged upon to show what an important part these play in the life of the association. The report adds that -although the activity in the house department had not- been so marked during the past year a total of 1201 men had been cared for. In this branch of its service the association sought to benefit young men who were in receipt of moderate incomes.

j The: Auckland Boy Scout Association held-its annual ambulance competitions Saturday afternoon on the Outer Domain. Eleven teams competed. The judges were from St. John Ambulance Association, tinder Mr. Potter. Possible marks 100. Result: "St. George's Troop, 87 points, 1; St. Alban's Troop, 83 points, 2; St. Mary's Troop, 60 points, 3.