FORMER HELPERS
SOME WILLING WORKERS (By Forty Years On.) The remarks, of “Old Timer” go a little further back than “Forty Years On”- can go. but some of the early members of the Y.M.C.A. have reminded me of the very line all-round athlete the town had in the late Arthur Williams, who was killed in action in Gallipoli. Arthur Williams was the first gymnasium instructor. George Sykes has also reminded me of the very fine debating club which was started in the Y.M.C.A. and which ufeed to carry on debates with surrounding districts. Then I seem to remember that Arthur Rees, one of the early parttime secretaries, carried on a dramatic society so that thirty years ago the Y.M.C.A. was a very lusty infant. In the period following the last war there was a time of financial depression but the Y.M.C.A. was fortunate in obtaining a secretary (Arthur Bate) who stressed the. moral and religious side and from these built up the educational and physical side —which appears to be in absolute opposition to Bernard Shaw’s teaching—but the success of his method was obvious to all who were interested in the movement.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 2
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