BOYS’ INSTITUTE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11304, 1 September 1922, Page 9

BOYS’ INSTITUTE

HEADMASTER'S TRIBUTE. The monthly meeting ol the Boys' Institute and S. A. Rhodes Home for Boys was held this' week, present—Mr G. A. Troup in the chair, Mesdames Moorhouse, McKerrow, Dr McLaurin, Messrs J. S. Morioe, BiSo., A. W. Barton, C. S. Moore, G. E. Brown, P. W. Banks, D. Blake, and tihe director, Mr J. W. Butler. ■ Correspondence was received from Mr C. Bary, headmaster of the Mount Cook Boys' School, in which he expressed the highest appreciation of the advantages the boys of the school had received from the influence of the Boys' Institute. "Their manliness, honesty of' purpose, behaviour, respect for others, and their reliability of word and deed have greatly improved." said Mr Bary, and because of these, he had found that the management of the boys had been a . work of pleasure and ease. A letter was received from Mr H. Amos, (secretary of the boys’ committee of the Rotary Club, asking for the co-operation of the institute in connection with the hoys' week-end demonstration in September. It was resolved, to give all the assistance possible towards making the function a success. The directors report stated that the attendance, especially of younger boys, was increasing, and it was difficult to* find accommodation. The cricket season promised to be the most successful in the history of the institute, and it was hoped that at least seventeen teams would he entered for the competitions. During the month the braes band had rendered a programme of music at the Ohiro Home, and also at Oriental Bay for the Mayor's unemployment fund. The piotures held on Friday evenings were appreciated by the boys, ■ the attendance each evening being about 900. It was resolved to approve of the license from the Hospital Board for the use of the ground in front of the hospital for a children’s play area, and tenders for the apparatus are to be called for at once. The director, Mr J. W. Butler, was appointed to address the Young Citizens* League on the aims and objects of the institute, and Mr James Hislop, C.8.E., was appointed as representative on the advisory oounoil. A special vote of thanks is to be oonveyed to the Oheer-Oh Girls for the assistance rendered in connection with the concert. The president stated that steps would shortly be taken to seonre the-necessary funds to erect another building on the ground adjoining the present institute, and the gymnasium would be a special feature. OBITUARY. The president, Mr Troup, referred to the loss sustained by the institute in the death of its honorary surgeon, the late Dr T. Harrison Horrax. The doctor had inaugurated the medical corrective classes, and was looking forward to the plav area as an opportunity to further extend the Work. He had always given his seryioee willingly for tihe benefit of the children, and his lose would be .keenly felt by the hoys of the institute, A motion of eondolence with the relatives was carried in eilence.