WORK FOR YOUTH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 274, 14 July 1932, Page 2

WORK FOR YOUTH

; ROTARIAN APPEALS FOR ' ASSISTANCE OF ? MEMBERS. 4 CO-OPERATION WITH Y.M.C.A. WELLINGTON, Priday. It would be eneouraging to 'the Y.M.C.A. and of great advantage to the combined scheme of the*JointRotary- Y.M.C.A. committee for assisting unemployed boys, if tbe Rotary interests in the scheme could be further vitalised, said Rotarian J. I. Goldsmith, seconding the adoption of the Teport at the ahnual meeting of the Rotary Club on Tuesday. The committee exclusively occupied a particular field at present, and it? would be an excellent thing if, with the iiiore active assistance of all the many classifications of Rotarians, covering every commercial and business activity of the city, the job could . be so weli done that it would be unnecessary for any other hody than the joint committee to undertake the , work, said Mr. Goldsmith. There were only three representatives of ■ Rotary on the joint committee, but there were 117 members of the club in Wellington, all of whom could very probably find some way of assisting the Y.M.C.A. profitably to the boys and the community. Though Rotary had contributed towards the Penrose Camp, and had worked in the heartiest co-operation with the other body, he felt that there was more that could . be done by its members. • Rotarians could co-operate to ■ a greater extent in the work of dealing with the unemployed boys by: (a) . Ittterviewing and registering (boys; (b) finding positions; (c) maintaining publicity over the air, through the Press, and hy negotiating with organisations and people able to assist; (d) conducting of occupational classes; (e) carrying out of recreation with in the gymnasium; (f) negotiating with farmers for country work, selecting boys for farm positions, and following them up after they have been sent out; (g) preparations for the next agricultural-training and holiday camp; (h) attendaing' to unemployed boys without clothes or boots, or in some other kind of urgent work. Excellent work had been done. Up to date 700 boys had been interviewed : and registered, and 180 placed in permanent and temporary positions. Negotiations will representative bodies and general publicity had been carried out on behalf of the need of unemployed boys. One hundred boys were taken into camp under the Penrose scheme for four weeks and a half and 50 per cent. of these placed in permanent positions. Seventy were at -present enrolled in occupational training classes. .