AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1931, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

CH Rlsfi^N" ENDEAVOOR

CONVENTION.

(Australian Press, Association.)

SYDNEY, August 25. Scenes of solemnity marked the closing rally of the Christian Endeavour Convention, . when- the Rev. TdoneJ... dress, consecrated & largo number of young men and women, to the work of this movement. , : I :

Mr Fletcher described the Convention ns the greatest held in 'Australia from the viewpoint of numbers and spirituality. He said that while lie did not wish to. appear as a killjoy, ho expressed the hope that the young people would not follow the vanities of life and spoil the harmony of the spiritual life. Rev. Verooe Cocks, retiring national President, presented'to. Mr Flhtcher; a bound volume of the Convention proceedings.

Mr Fletcher inducted .the .new officers., Rev. S. E. Dorman as National President, and Mr Cocks as Deputy. A demonstration by juniors in the

City Town Hall, preceded by a procession in the city streets, was a notable gathering, marked by stirring addresses and tableaux.

A FATAL ADVENTURE. SYDNEY, August 25. His boyish instinct for adventure, caused Stewart Fitzhardinge, aged 16, to build himself a sort of nest like a bed in the fork of a Moreton Bay fig tree, thirty feet high, at Double Bay, to which he climbed for the first time on Sunday night. He slept there that night, he repeated the act last night, but, apparently, he rolled out overnight, and he crashed on to a concrete path below and was killed.

Four of his comrades had contemplated emulating his nest bed, but the opinions of all have changed now.