HASTINGS Y.M.C.A.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 14, 30 December 1930, Page 7

HASTINGS Y.M.C.A.

BOYS’ CAMP. FIRST PARTY LEAVES. Yesterday afternoon at 2.30 saw a Government • ’bus load up with a group of happy boy campers, who were leaving to spend 10 days with the ■ Hastings Y.M.C.A. at their Waipmnga camp, at Eskdale. The cajnp director and one of his loaders have been at camp since Boxing Day, so that everything is ready for the reception of the boys. An experienced Army cook is in charge of the preparation of meals, so that the campers will have the best food and will also be able to devote their whole time to hiking, swimming, first aid study and other features of camp life, free from the responsibility of cooking their own meals. As at the previous camps, overnight camping will be a feature of the programme. Two trips are scheduled, one to Tangoio Falls and White Pine Bush, and the other to Rocky Basin. At least two days will be spent in each of these trips, an overnight camp being made at Oheish Bush and another among the tall trees at White Pine Bush. This the fourth Y.M. camp in two years, set a new figure for registrations, with nearly fifty enrolled. The directors, realising the growing appreciation by parents of Association camps, and also believing thoroughly in the principle of the small camp, where leadership and boys are close together, decided to take care of the extra number! by conducting a twoperiod camp, leach of 10 days’ duration. The finst period concludes on January 9. when the second period will commence.