WORK OF THE Y.M.C.A.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20985, 23 September 1931, Page 6

WORK OF THE Y.M.C.A.

RECENT WORLD CONFERENCES NEW ZEALANDER'S RETURN. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. After representing New Zealand at the vorld Y.M.C.A. conferences in Toronto and Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Keith Falconer returned to Wellington from America by the Makura yesterday. He said there were two conferences at Toronto, one for young men and the other for boy workers, while the conference at Cleveland was concerned with all phases of iY.M.C.A. work and was attended by 900 delegates, /representing 47 nations. "You may judge how cosmopolitan it was," said Mr. Falconer, "when I tell you that my room-mates were a young Turk and an Arab from Jerusalem. In the same-manner English, Canadian and American boys were sharing rooms with Japanese and Brazilians, Chinese • and Hungarians. "The effect of such gatherings must be very far-reaching. One very important matter dealt with at Cleveland related to the moving-picture industry. It was decided that the producing corporations should be approached with an urgent re quest for better-class and cleaner pictures and that in return Y.M.C.A. magazines and papers would make a point of publishing the names of pictures which passed the Y.M.C.A. selection committees." ... , , Another form of activity discussed, said Mr. Falconer, was the necessity for giving all assistance possible to students and travellers by Y.M.C.A. organisations throughout the world, so that young men. no matter where they were, would have at their disposal points of assembly and bureaux of helpful information to aid them on their way. Great preparations were being made for the international exhibition, to be held in Chicago in 1933. Mr. Falconer continued. Thev had already'been at work for over & year on the erection of the buildings in Grant Park, on the lake front.