ST. ANDREW’S SOCIETY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23370, 9 December 1937, Page 2

ST. ANDREW’S SOCIETY

LITERARY SECTION The final meeting for the present season of the St. Andrew’s Society (literary section) took place on Tuesday evening, Mr James Brown presiding over a fair attendance of members and friends. The chair man took the opportunity of extending a welcome to Dr Stuart Moore. The chairman introduced the article by Mr Dingle Foot, M.P., on the “ Outlook for Scotland ” and poverty and unemployment increase. The matter of the growing poverty, changes in industry, home rule, and the practical policy needed, were the important matters touched upon in the article, and this paper brought forth much criticism by those present. . , The Rev. Hugh Graham quoted from the writings of the Ballad Club of Glasgow, and many humorous episodes were related, the speaker receiving an ovation for the poem “ When Father Soops the Lum.” Dr Stuart Moore spoke on Highland dancing and its accompanying benefits from a physical point of view, and urged those present to advocate having this and other country dances taught in schools. 11 Scotland in June” was another article quoted from the Christian Science Monitor, while several speakers gave humorous anecdotes from the Auld Kirk.