Y.M.C.A. YEAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 14

Y.M.C.A. YEAR

REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES MANY ENTERPRISES LAUNCHED Educational, community and social work carried out during the past year ia reviewed in the annual report of the Auckland Young Men’s Christian Association, to be presented at the annual meeting to-morrow evening. The report states that the annual revenue had not come up to expectations. The year showed a deficiency of £762. The overdraft at the bank was £4,333, compared with £3,488 last year. There was urgent need for renovating and refurnishing of the building. Members at present, totalled 1,778. Of these 601 were boys, 241 belonged to the young mens’ division, 760 to the senior men’s section, and 176 were classed as sustaining members. An outstanding feature of the past year had been the completion of the Camp Lodge at Hunua, made possible by the action of the Rotary Club, which had collected £BOO. Referring to community work, the report states that a secretary had distributed 1,304 letters of welcome among immigrants and individual service had also been rendered many new settlers. Association representatives attended 23 different military camps in the Auckland district. A total of 112 boys had been cared for under the Big Brother movement The appointment of the general secretary as an honorary child welfare r-’hus 1 ’ h , ad „ enabled him to attend the Childrens Court and to assist in various ways. As a result of grants by w i ey trustees and the Child Welfare branch of the Education Dehn«T nt ’ boys the boys’ hostel were being given a secondary school education. 7 The association had acted as local representative for the Flock Ho „ s cL S b y irE school boya scheme. iaSoTir t h b SErStSi? pTe£ nal ™ The gymnasium section had im proved us finances, but a large group of boys catered far at small made it impossible to make this work as There

Th ® hpnse department had not returned the expected revenue, owing chiefly to the large amount of private hoard offering and to the fact that the association took in many young men earning small wages at reduced tariffs.