"TOC H”

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 6

"TOC H”

SOCIAL SERVICE ITS OBJECT A lantern lecture on Toe H, once of Poperinghe and Ypres, and now the youth movement of the British Empire, was delivered on Thursday evening in St. Mark’s Schoolroom by the Rev. E. S. Emraitt, AI.C. He said that the movement in New Zealand had not yet reached the perils of popularity, but a small band of workers in the Dominion were doing their best to follow out its ideals. The glory of Toe H, he said, was that it did not want anyone to come in and sit at ease. Its object was social service and its members did not ask for any reward. Membership was open not only to ex-service-men, out to young men who were willing to work for their fellows, and follow in the footsteps of those who had fallen ou the battlefields of the Great War. In New Zealand Toe H had made progress, but there was room toi much improvement still. Six colleges were now co-opcrating in the work — Christ’s College, St. Andrew’s College, Christchurch, the Christchurch Boys’ High School, Scots College, Wellington, John AlcGlashan College, Dunedin, and the New Plymouth High School. The Auckland branch had taken over the Seamen’s Mission, and was now doing splendid work. The Wellington branch attended regularly to various duties, which included the meeting of English public school boys, assisting the Red Cross, and lending a helping hand to the Levin Home Orphanage.