Y.M.C.A. SCHEME

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 163, 5 April 1933, Page 11

Y.M.C.A. SCHEME

Hut for Boys’ Work

ERECTION AT PETONE

Bv Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, April 4.

Work is to be started in. Wellington shortly on a new Y.M.C.A. hut for boys, probably at Petone. i. The funds will come from £l2OO subscribed by New Zealand soldiers during the war for the erection of a memorial to the war work of the association. The trustees are Sir Andrew Russell, Mr. J. D. Hay, the president of the Y.M.C.A., and the national treasurer.

Mr. R. M. Brasted, national secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association, stated yesterday that the announcement was a trifle premature. ■ The subject'had been discussed at the national convention of the Y.M.C.A. at Christchurch, but it had not been decided where the hut should be erected. It was the idea to erect a hut on the lines of those used during the Great War for boys work, and it had been considered that there was good scope for this class of work in the area between Petone anil Hutt. Nothing, however, had been finalised at the convention.