Funds For Delegates To Youth Conference

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30776, 14 June 1965, Page 7

Funds For Delegates To Youth Conference

Youth groups throughout. New Zealand will be asked to' raise £llOO to enable young j people from Asia and the j Pacific to attend the fourth | ecumenical youth conference: which will open in Hamilton ! at the end of this year. This was announced by the chairman of the conference steering committee (the Rev. I W. Schrader) at the annuall meeting of the youth committee of the National Coun- ] cil of Churches in Christ-I church on Saturday. The conference will last from December 28 to January! 4. and 1500 delegates, with: leaders, will attend. It was hoped that at least; 80 people from Asia and I Pacific countries would at-1 tend. Mr Schrader said. The travel fund will be; used to assist 20 young people | : from Indonesia. Malaysia,. jCeylon, India. Pakistan. Hong, Kong, Formosa. Japan, Fiji,! ■Tonga, Samoa, the New Hebrides, Melanesia and the I Cook Islands. Definite registrations so far! have come from an Indian lecturer and three Formosians, and inquiries have!

.come from several other counI tries in South-east Asia. ! A party of 50 is also ex- ! pected from Australia, and 130 places have been reserved 'for a group from the Maori iyouth ecumenical conference, to be held at Rotorua in I August. j Altogether, more than 500 I have registered, and forms | are coming in at the rate of about 40 a day. The three main speakers at •[the conference will be Dr. D. T. Niles, of Ceylon. Dr. S. Nababan of Indonesia, and I the Rev. Alan Brash. II The conference will have :“a contemporary look,” Mr :! Schrader said. “Among the I many significant changes will ■I be the attempt to have fewer ! addresses and more drama- : tice presentation of the :| faith.” Interpretive dance and : j “beat” music will be includ- , ed in some of the services. ■!and a play and musical revue : i will be presented. I Officers elected were: chair'man. Mrs M. Morrison: vice--chairman, Captain B. McStay: ■ treasurer, Mr B. Clarke; auditor, Mr L Bush.