MR DUDLEY WILLS TO GO INTO CAMP
ACCEPTED FOR Y.M.CA. FIELD SERVICE Mr Dudley Wills, who has been a popular figure in the activities of the Y.M.C.A. in Invercargill since its reopening two years ago, has been accepted for military service and he will leave Invercargill soon to take up new duties.
Mr Wills is general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. and also director of the physical education department of the institution. He came to Invercargill from Burnham and in a short time he had so successfully organized the gymnastic and physical culture classes of the Y.M.C.A. that in the course of a few months he was conducting the largest gymnasium classes in New Zealand. The social side of the Y.M.C.A. also developed under his guidance and he will leave it in a happy and flourishing state. Mr Wills will be called, upon to associate himself with the Y.M.C.A. field service in one of the camps. He has had experience in this class of work. At the outbreak of war in 1939 he was stationed in a camp and he played a leading part in the establishment of the first Y.M.C.A. Hut at the camp.
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Southland Times, Issue 24754, 27 May 1942, Page 4
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