BOYS’ INSTITUTE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 198, 19 May 1944, Page 4

BOYS’ INSTITUTE

New Workshop Opened

The H. Dillon Bell Memorial Workshop at the Wellington Boys’ Institute was opened by the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr. Sullivan, when he visited the institute and the S. A. Rhodes Home on Wednesday. The vocational workshop has been operating for n number of years, but has recently been enlarged and modernized in parallel with alterations and additions to the rest of the institute. Mr. Sullivan addressed a largo gathering of boys and their relatives in the new vocational hall. ‘1 he Prime Minister. he said, took a very deep interest in the activities of the institute. He referred to the generosity of the Bell family in providing the funds to set up the workshop, which played a very important part in the work of the institute, «ud also of the Sargood Trust and other generous douors whose contributions had p-'id for the modern equipment. To the boys, Mr. Sullivan said it must be a great pleasure to have the facilities of the institute in learning to make things. An even greater pleasure would be derived from the knowledge that they were to make toys that would be distributed at an appropriate time to children in hospitals and health camps. The men and women engaged in sueh an excellent work as the institute were rendering a great service to the community.