YOUTH HOSTEL ASSOCIATION

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20989, 18 October 1933, Page 4

YOUTH HOSTEL ASSOCIATION

At the last committee meeting of the Canterbury Regional of the Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand, Messrs W. Taylor and S. Mcares reported that they had approached the Commissioner of Crown Lands regarding the road at Peraki Cove and had learned that a legal road existed, but further enquiries were to be made in reference to the survey. The secretary read letters from the Youth Hostel Movements in England, Scotland, France, and Holland expressing good wishes towards this association, and offering or suggesting reciprocal facilities between their associations and ours. The hostel secretary reported that there were approximately 60 bookings on the Peninsula for the Labour Day week-end and a few on the West Coast. The organising secretary reported that the three talks broadcast from 3YA had been most successful, and thanks were due to the Broadcasting Board and those who gave the interesting talks for the assistance given I this association in this direction. j An excellent poster had been contributed by Mr Cook and was to be seen at the Public Library. A vote of thanks was expressed to Mr S. Meares for the signposts which he had completed, and further signs had been left at Hill Top for delivery !to Wainui, and three had been Jeft at Okain's Bay, one to be erected on the way to Lc Bon's Bay. The treasurer's report on the Winter Show stall was adopted. The funds of the council stood at £lO 16s 7d, and two club subscriptions were still outstanding. At the conclusion of the meeting a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the chairman, Sir Arthur Dobson, for his very able chairmanship.

A new association, the Good Companions, has as officers a number of men of more than ordinary interest (writes the Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus"). They may be described as "artistic and amiable, but not highbrow"—at least, not overwhelmingly so. Mr W. G. Layton, Mr Oswald Anderson, and the Rev. George Cowie are all good "mixers.'' Mr Peter Dawson is the right kind of patron for such a band, for sincerity is the keynote of his manner, both in private life and in his unaffectedly artisticsinging. Another newly-formed association is that of wireless announcers. It includes the names of all those persons who are heard frequently, but will not be seen widely until television arrives. Women announcers are excluded from this club. This is scarcely to be wondered at, for wireless "aunties" and "uncles" must need a holiday from one another sometimes. Wireless makes for good companionship. Orientals, it is said, now go about their work whistling Chopin and Brahms. Surely this is not the least of the marvels wrought by modern science.