HASTINGS Y.M.C.A.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 219, 2 September 1929, Page 9

HASTINGS Y.M.C.A.

HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES VISITING BOYS FROM MASTERTON, Last week a group of Y.M.C.A. boys from Masterton, under the leadership of Mr. E. A. Bate, visited Hastings. They were entertained by the Hastings boys at tea on Monday night, and on Tuesday they were taken to “The Peak.” A Rugby match was played between tho Kookaburra Group and the visitors, and Newsboys, Pioneers, Kiwis and Tuxis boys played them at basketball. A banquet was held on Tuesday evening, when 40 Maaterton and Hastings boys sat down to tables covered with good things. Tho president, Mr. Robert Harding, took the chair, and the address was given by the principal (Mr. A. Bailiff) of the M.A.C. The speaker said that great gifts bad been given by people to the nation, but no gift could compare with the gift of boys to the nation. Mr. Bailiff then taught the boys a new song, afterwards explaining that boys all over the world liked to sing. The things which we liked to do here hoys liked to do in Germany, in France, in England, and everywhere else. Greatness, he continued, had been accomplished by all the nations, but those who had stood out- were thoso who have produced men. Greatness was the result of a nation’s great sons. And these great men, Richard lie Lion-Heart,, whom all boys admired. Nelson, and more recently, Disraeli, Palmerston nud Gladstone, were all boys like us. Speaking as an American. Mr. Bailiff said that he was proud, “because,” he said, “we originally came from Great Britain. We seek to be great like her. There has been a great deal to say about who should rule the waves, and who should lead the world, but this need not make for conflict. The power put into them can be put into a movement for peace. And this thought of world peace brings us back to youth. Tho nation cannot get along without future representatives of the people, here is the wealth of the world ” The speaker then paid a compliment to the Y.M.C.A. as an agency for peace, mentioning that it was established all over the world and played a large part in bringing boys' ol different nations together. FUTURE DEPENDS ON YOUTH. “We are on the right track,” he said. “Every nation knows that the future depends on youth, and what is going to happen when you, who have been learning the way of peace, rule the nations? We will have peace.' Mr. Bailiff concluded his address with the statement that the nation must realise that the greatest treasure it has is its manhood; anything that destroys this should be destroyed. Mr. Bailiff was accorded a very hearty vote of thanks for his address. TRIPS. On Wednesday the members of the Newsboys Group were the guests of the Misses Anderson, at Poporangi. They were taken by the directors of the Y.M.C.A. and enjoyed a wonderful day in Kereru bush and at Poporangi station. On the same day members of other Y.M.C.A. groups visited Cape Kidnappers and tho gannets, under the leadership of the secretary, Mr. Price. BASKETBALL. Fifteen matches have been arranged bebtween the different boys’ groups for the holiday. The results to date are as follows Pioneers v. Kookaburras 1., 32— 44. Newsboys v. Kookaburras 11., 2— 40. Baptist Tuxis v. Kiwis. 16—12. Pioneers v. Newsboys, 6—17. Newsboys v. Kookaburras 1., 46— 20. Baptist Tuxis v. Kookaburras 11., 24—32. The games will be continued from 10 a.m. to 12 noon each day this week.