A LEAGUE OF USEFULNESS

Evening Star, Issue 16998, 21 March 1919, Page 4

A LEAGUE OF USEFULNESS

At the residence of Mrs Arthur Hudson at Musselburgh Messrs Peter Barr and M. Cohen attended_ the other day for the purpose of presenting silver medallions to tho members of the Musselburgh School branch of the Young Helpers' League. • All who belong to thia organisation of scholars qualify for the reception of this prettilydesigned medallion by (a) three years' con- | tlnuous membership, and (b) by raising a minimum of five shillings per "annum to ■ wards the support of the Barnardo Homes in .k° n .don and Barking. Thoso who gained this distinction were: Edna Smeaton, Isabel Morton, Oliv© M'Oracken, Esther Kayo, Margaret Kayo, Annie Kavc, May Evans,' Enid Dunning. Linda White, Annie Simpson, Rita Brown, Helen Duncan, JeanAlexander, Donald Cameron, Graham Spence, Jack Kewish, Graham Lister, David Kaye, Albert Kaye, Shaw Gilchrist, Crossley FicVlen, Leonard ESquilan*, Bert Esqmlant, Neville Dawe. Mr Barr, in distributing the medallions, gave _ the following interesting (statistics showing how the Musselburgh branch had during the four years of its existence. Tho first box opening (in December, 1915) realised £8 16s 7d f in 1916 it was £ls Is 9d % in 1917, £lB lis lOd ; and in 1918 (despite the influenza visitation) it went up to £lB 15s 2d, averaging a trifle over £ls per annum. In conjunction with the Forbury School, Musselburgh in 1916 ran a lantern entertainment that produced £lO 5s Bd, and the following year the two schools organised a bazaar, which was a conspicuous success, realising £136. The schools of the Dunedin district gathered in 1915 the sum of £169; in 1916 it jumped up to £642; in 1917 the highwater mark of £663 was reached; and last year, notwithstanding the "flu" visitation, it reached the respectable sum of £648, or a grand total of £2,122 in four years. He hoped that in succeeding years the sum remitted from Dunedin would continue to grow, and that in the not far distant future he would be able to congratulate the children on gathering four figures in a sinffla year.

Mr Cohen gave some interesting reminiscences of his two visits to the Barnardo Homes at Stepney and Barking, and promised, when he lectured at the Musselburgh School, to show on the ecreen pictures of the principal features of both institutions.

-A- pleasant afternoon was terminated by the children being entertained at tea by Mts Hudson.