SECRETARY APPOINTED

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 105, 28 January 1935, Page 10

SECRETARY APPOINTED

Wellington Competitions Society The appointment of Mr. S G. Cresswell as secretary of the Wellington Competitions Society is announced by the executive council of the society. He will begin his duties on February 1. Mr. Cresswell has been a resident of Wellington since 1918. For 11 years be was in Hie printing trade in Mastertoil. ami lias spent 15 .years in Y.M.C.A. work. He joined :'.e Masterton Y.M.C.A. in 1915 as gereral secretary. ami in 1918 transfer:ed to the Wellington association as assistant general secretary, and for mme time was acting-general see-efary In P.)21 lie transferred lo tim national headquarters staff, and in 1924 was appointed national military mid industrial secretary in charge of Y.M C.A work in military cani]w am! Public Works camps throughout New Zealand. For a period during 1926 he vms actingnational secretary. Al the -rd of 192!) he retired from Y.M.C.A. work and entered tiie business of advertising and publishing, and established Universal Business Directories, Ltd., am) rhe .Universal Publicity Service. Tiie society is pushing ahem! witli arrangements for the 1935 comiietitions, which will be held in tbe Town Hall from August 2-1 to September 7. The syllabus is now in prepar-i'ion. mul many new items are being .u'jleil