BOYS' GORDON HALL.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18372, 4 May 1925, Page 7

BOYS' GORDON HALL.

OPENING OF SEASON BANQUET. , Boys of all ages, sizes, and shapes filled the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium with no.se on Saturday night, when the opening of season Liquet of the Boys' Gordon Hall divUion was held. Five long tables bearing a huge assortment of cakes, jellies, *»\ ie ™°** e bottles, accommodated about 200 boys who gathered under the chainnansh.p of Mr J. D. Hall. ~ . , ... The banquet was the preliminary to the • of spiritual, mental, physi7ffr/ndso?STork, which attracts Christ°t l in large numbers, and fills an the preparation of potenf", eU fHrens Th? Y M.C.A. holds classes in tial citizens, ine ■ *.. , all branches of toys ana Snd outdoor SSrt «S is recognised as an exP J];mv valuable institution. Ce The e neJ season was scheduled to open iJ irlwD but the epidemic precluded Sis 1 and Saturday night saw the opening « io« The arrangements were in the l l Jl ? of a committee of ladies under the Kio°n of Mrs P. Kindle, and they earned oOt W«Thf the following 'toastHalf," "Tnl IScA "*(£ L. ( HarVer D reso"se SfrS , »,U| "1925" (Mr G. Innes, response Mr G. McKenzte. boys' work director) • At the commencement of the banquet the gathering stood in silence as a mark of sympathy with Mr Masaey in his illness. A short programme of nrasgal and elocutionary items was given by Howard Firkin and Ruru'B Glee Party, and a number of choruses was sung.