SYDNEY BOYS’ WEEK

Southland Times, Issue 20012, 28 October 1926, Page 4

SYDNEY BOYS’ WEEK

ROTARY CLUB’S TRIUMPH. WELL-ORGANISED PROGRAMME. Sydney, October 7. The boys of Sydney have been in the spotlight during the last week. On the platform, from the pulpit, and in other forms of well-organised propaganda, attention has been focussed upon the boys of the community as the men of to-morrow, and upon the problems of boy welfare. Boys’ Week has been a signal success. It is. another triumph for the Rotary Club of Sydney, and is the second campaign of the kind undertaken by it. It had its eminently practical, as well as idealistic, side. Financially, it has served to lend a helping hand to the kindergartens and the day nurseries, which will greatly benefit, just as the Boys’ Brigade very materially benefited on the occasion of the former week. Choral competitions, a big exhibition of boys’ work in the Town Hall, and other functions, including a ball, did much to make the week brightly spectacular, and to relieve it of any suggestion that Rotary was merely preaching to the elders of the community, and telling them, in short, how to bring up their youngsters. The week was conceived and carried out - u—national spirit, which commended itself to the community generally, ii iue rm... boys of Sydney from this out acquire the habit of going to church, then Rotary will have solved for the church a perplexinc problem. One of the features of the week consisted of special church services for the lads and their dads. The services introduced something of a new era in church life in Sydney, for the president of the Sydney Rotary Club, Mr W. G. Conley, and other prominent Rotarians occupied the pulpits in leading churches, and in a great number of eases boys not only took round the plate, but also assisted in conducting the services. Not for many a year have the churches been so generally well filled as they were on this occasion. The week struck a bright, helpful note in the life of the community. The good of it will be felt in time for the lads of to-day are the dads of to-morrow.