YORKSHIRE SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 7

YORKSHIRE SOCIETY

Keen interest was shown by members of the Yorkshire Society of .NewZealand at their annual meeting on Wednesday evening. The annual,report summarised the interesting events of the past year, and the discussion concerning future programmes; was most fruitful. A feature of the. meeting was the putting on of records prepared by the Yorkshire Dialect. Society as a means of preserving the historically valuable and interesting -idiom, ot Yorkshire districts. ~ ..There are ' some 25 different dialects in the. county and. in them words:still-survive which link the present with,the distant/past. ' The president (Mr. Karl Atkinson) announced that arrangements.' were being made to give an evening, tion to some members- of the M.uc. team the Yorkshire Society inviting Messrs. Leyland and.Verity, and the Men of Kent,, in .association with., them, inviting Messrs. Ames,' Fagg, and Hammond (the latter ,of whom, is, Kent born). It is anticipated that the'function will be held on.Wednesday, March

24. .■ ■■,■... ■■• The society was again co-operating with other English county societies arranging for a.special celebration on St. George's: Day, April 23. particulars of which would be announced later. ■The' election of officers resulted lag follows:—President, Mr. Karl-Atkin-son; vice-presidents, Messrs. Will Appleton and J. H. Flockton; hon. secretary, Mr. J. Malton Murray; assistant hon. secretary, Mr. H. A. Askew; treasurer, Mr. L. Monkman; committee, Messrs. L. Blacker. J. Hemingway, L. T Lambert, G. W. Metcalf, C. E. Thackeray and W. E. Walker; auditors, '.Uess'rs. R. W. Kitchingman and C. Haig. •.•.-'