Y.M.C.A. NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 664, 15 November 1909, Page 8

Y.M.C.A. NOTES.

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Mr. W.. F.' Woodcraft, general secretary of the Brisbane Y.M.C.AV, has had to relinquish duties for a few- months owing-to a nervous break-down. .''',"■' .' / ■"•■';■-/■ / The Y.M.C.A.'s of Grcai Britain have done splendid work for' the British Territorials when they' have been in camp. -.The number of letters, postal cards,,.and parcels posted iu the tents this year reached the enormous number of 884,845/. and the postal, orders sold amounted to .£6IOO, which spells temperance, and thrift and the: support of many families fit Home. Some days;as. many as 1000 postalorders were sold' in one camp;. Mr. W. Gillanders, 8.A., who retired from the position of national secretary a few weeks ago,, has entered into partnership -with; Mr. Richardson, of Melbourne, and opgned an office in the A-M.P. Buildings, Collins Street, Melbourne, under: the style;of Gillanders and ■Bichardson,' land and' property .salesmen."- etc. 1 President Taft," on his whirlwind western -.trip laid the foundation' stone of-the. new Y.M.C.A. building. in San Francisco. This structure will cost ~.£120,000., .-,' The new, year book of the associations on the North American Continent, which is just ' issued, shows a/ gross membership of 456,207, compared with 446,032, in 1908, and 437,178 in 1907. Six.thousand Bible classes are reported and with' 92,588 ! students, an increase of Over; 4000. Tho associations' properly holdings' are mow. valued at £12,500,000, an; increase of. one millions pounds in real estate,.'buildings, and endowment funds. . More than £50,000 was contributed in twelve months for the homo work of the American International Committee, while the gifts for its efforts in foreign lands oxceoded ,£35,000; Nearly 47,000 . students are .enrolled in the educational classes, an increase'of's per cent., and 210)262: young men are registered in 641 gymnasiums. Apartments were found during the year for 39,383 young men, and 52,548 made their, homes in the dormitories of the associations. ■' The total number of associations reporting is 1914. This compares with 1990 in Germany, where, . howover, the membership ,is 117;682;' while our own in Groat Britain is a little laifeer; or including affiliated sociotios; 145,000; ; Over half the entire universal membership, is : found in the United States and Canada; Then: splendid record may well-servo both' as an inspiration and a challenge to the rest,of the worldr 1 \ particularly, the European Continent. . ; '.