Y.M.C.A. NOTES

Rangiora Gunner, Volume 1, Issue 6, 20 April 1943, Page 2

Y.M.C.A. NOTES

Recently installed in the Y.M.O.A? Rut - two large coke heaters, Nice and cosy, eh? Almost but not quite, like homo. Lea. has an able assistant these days. Gar, T--— will sell you anything from a milk-shake to a super radio set with all the*trimmings, plus sales talk and sales tax. Recently joined the table tennis fiends Bdr. P- -. Bill L— -— is building an out-house for his trphies® He is considering writing an authorative text-book "Table-Tennis for the Beginner” with a foreword by 3.T. .'J v '• • Some choice book titles from the Y.M.' Library, which, by tho way, is looking rather moth-eaten at prosont. "Sunset at Noon"; "Tho Battle of the Strong" by Gilbert Parker; "Sinister Street" by Oompton Mackenzie: "Old J-ybus" by W. Beeping; "Cosmopolitans” by Somerset Maughan; "Masterson" by Gilbert Franc "Tell England” by Ernest Raymond; VChronicles,of Captain Blood" by-R. Sabatini. - Las gets a great "kick" out of his milk-shake machine© Unfortunately it rather has a tendency to break in on the radio, and from time to time a most unearthly screech bursts forth from the loudspeaker. However, tho milk-shakes excellent and only a few of the boys would rather have a beer, (perhaps!) We miss many once familiar faces in the Y.M© The little' gatherings in tho "don" are alas, no more. Still to' bo soon among tho card fiends are those two well-known identities "Marty" and Bill M. May their shadows never decrease! Where are our pianists now that Frank is no longer with us? The pianos look so lonely and forlorn with tho dust gathering in their ‘ k insidos. We are looking foward to a few tunes from some of our singing bdrs. who nearly lift tho Gamp Orderly Room roof skywards in song (usually trying to drown tho radio.)