YOUTH CLUB’S PREMISES

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28267, 3 May 1957, Page 10

YOUTH CLUB’S PREMISES

Milk Bar Among Amenities

When the youth club which was formed last winter by Pastor T. W. Whiting reopens in new premises on May 20, one of its new amenities will probably be a milk bar. The club went into recess during the summer because most of the boys left Christchurch to take up seasonal jobs in other centres. To investigate and extend this branch of youth work in Christchurch the Regional Youth Committee of the National Council of Churches has formed a sub-com-mittee, at the invitation of Pastor Whiting. The chairman of the committee is Captain H. W. A. Darrell, and the other members are the general secretary of the ifoung Men’s Christian Association (Mr M. M. Betts) and Pastor Whiting.

The Canterbury Rowing Club’s rooms in Fitzgerald avenue have been rented for six months for the club’s use. Upstairs are a hall for games and a smaller room which the sub-committee hopes to use as a milk-bar, with tables and chairs, where milk shakes and coffee can be obtained.

The ground floor of the building is &n earth-floored boatshed. The rowing club has offered to move its equipment so that half of the floor may be used by youth club members wishing to work with their motor-cycles. The equipment used last year, including a snooker table, a sewing machine, and a record player, will be transferred to the new club. t

On Sundays, and possibly Monday and Wednesday evenings, the building will be open for youth club activities. The sub-committee is particularly interested in young oersons who have just left school who wish to join the club.