WONDERFUL HOLIDAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 13

WONDERFUL HOLIDAY

Y.M.C.A. SUMMER CAMP TO BE HELD AT HUNUA On December 22 some 300 Auckland boys will pack up their old clothes, “footie” boots and washing and eating gear and set out for Hunna, 11 miles beyond Papakura, on the Wairoa Stream, where the Y.M.C.A. is conducting a summer camp. Under the guidance of Mr. George Adair, boys’ work director of the Y.M.C.A., the boys will have that good time so beloved of the younger generation. / Sleeping under canvas, the lads will b© wakened by the rising- bell at 6.30, and after a wash breakfast will be served about 7.3 Q, a.m. A list of duties will be given out after the morning meal, followed by a short reading and a helpful talk. Then the boys will get to work clearing up the camp, peeling the potatoes and the various odd duties inseparable from camp life. After th© chores are over, the boys will b© divided into parties, graded according to age and, under the guidance of seniors, will set out on different trips. On their return a swim will be enjoyed before lunch, and on special days life-saving will be taught. After the mid-day meal cricket. Soccer, volley-ball and other sports will b© played, and at intervals camp will be divided into sections to develop the competitive spirit among the boys. Tea between 5 and 5.30 p.m. will bo followed by a game of Soccer or some other sport, and topped off _by a concert or a camp-fire talk. The boys will go to bed about nine o’clock when the leader in each tent will give them a short religious talk before they sink to sleep to the music of the gramophones which will be played at bed-time. Sometimes big-day trips will be undertaken by different parties and the popular over-night trips, where the boys camp out and enjoy the old pastime of “tossing the pancake” around the roaring camp-fire. Sunday will be a mare restful day. the afternoon being devoted to an excursion, when talks will be given by those in charge of the parties, while more time will be given to religious services. *ln the evening the different parties will go up to the hills nearby, where hymns will be sung, each party taking turns to carry on the music and create a fine effect. During wet weather services will be held in the lodge. During the first week in December a visit will be paid to the lodge by members of the Rotary Club, under the leadership of Mr. R. A. Laidlaw, chairman of the club’s boys’ wois committee. In the fine new lodge, and under the capable <?are of a camp mother, the boys 'will enjoy a holiday that will Eve in tbeir memories, and when they return on February 2, they will excite the envy of their less fortunate brethren.