YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1073, 16 April 1880, Page 2

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

Pursuant to advertisement, a meeting of those interested in the formation of a Young Man's -Christian Association took place at the Masonic Hall yesterday afternoon, Hia Worship the Mayor, in the chair, owing to the unreasonableness of the hour, viz., half-paat four, there was but a thin attendance. The Chairman, in introducing the Rev. 0. M. Pym, to the meeting thought that t\is establishment of the association in our midst would be productive of much good, and in a limited sense it could take the place of the defunct Debating Society. The Rev. Mr. Pym then said that he had had a long connection with Young Men's Christian Associations, and more particularly at Doncaster. In his experience he had found some of these associations which, springing from small beginnings, had been raised to a prosperous affair. They did a great deal of good, and- it was desirable tliat such an association should be established in Gisborne for the benefit of youths who were thrown into the temptations of billiard-rooms and cardplaying. These associations did not debar freedom of conscience or embody strict sectarian principles. After the Rev. E. Williams, Rev. J. McAra and Mr. Warren had spoken on the subject, Mr. Warren proposed " That it is the opinion of the meeting that a Young Men's Christian Association should be formed." Seconded by the Rev. J. McAra and carried. Proposed by Mr Warren, and seconded by Mr. Featon, "That a Provisional Committee consisting of the resident ministers and the following laymen, viz., Messrs. W. H. Robinson, East, Agnew Brown, Maud, Greenwood, K. White and the proposer and seconder, bo formed to take initiatory stops for permanently establishing the- Association, as also to obtain rules, and gather such other information as is necessary to carry out the object, to be laid before a future meeting. " Carried. The Chairman, in thanking the rev. gentleman for the action he had taken in the matter, regretted the thinness of the attendance, which, however, was not to be taken as an expression of a want of sympathy with the movement.

The compositor of a newspaper office, who had the Bentenco, " the future Queen of Spain is waiting for two trousseaus," to set up, is now taking a holiday. His informing the public that the future Queen is waiting for two trousers had a^ood deal to do with procuring his leisure.