2YA CHILDREN'S SESSIONS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 29 June 1928, Page 4

2YA CHILDREN'S SESSIONS

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETS Pie monthly meeting of the 2YA hildren Session Advisory Committee was held at the studio on Tuescay afternoon, the Rey. Ernest Weeks presiding. An apology for unavoidable absence was received from Mr. W. EB. Ilowe, representative of the Wellington Sunday School Union, who wrote advising that he had brought before his committee the suggestion made at the last 1neeting, and confirmed by resolution, that the co-operation of the union be sought in the matter of provy ing from the various Sunday schools hoirs for the Studio Sunday Evening Children’s Service. His committee had ‘before them the Broadeasting Com-~-ny’s letter elative to this matter, formally conveying the Advisory Com".e’s request that the Sunday School Union should co-operate in the manner suggested, and pointing out that the choirs for the studio service should comprise about twenty voices, Mr. Howe advised that his committee felt that the children’s service as broadcast hy 2YA -as of great value, especially t thos children so isolated that they could not attend ehurch service. "We think it is a fine thing,’ continued Mr. Howe, "that Sunday sehools should supply choirs for such services. We decided to forward to 2YA a list of Sunday schools and the secretaries or executive officers thereof, in the hope that this may be help- {... to the officer of 2YA who deals with the matter." It was resolved that the Sunday School Union be thanked for its sympathetic co-operation, : 1 that the children’s session organiser be requested to draft a letter to the representatives of the various Sunday schools, conveying the opinion of the Advisory Committee and soliciting their practical help in the provision of choirs, such letter to be forwarded over the signature of the chairman of the committee and the children’s session organiser. At the previous meeting of the committee a suggestion was made that an occasional broadeast from a children’s hospital, home, ov similar institution might, if practicable, be widely appreciated. This suggestion was discussed at some length, and it was. finally resolved that members of the committee be requested to make investigations as to what institutions were available for this purpose, and Mrs. Henry Smith and Brother Phelan undertook to ¢consult the principals of institutions in which they were interested... It was further suggested that the idea might be enlarged by the inclusion of leading scholastic institutions, wherein, .it was eonsidered, there was ample material for the provision of suitable broadcast programmes of a desirable standard. In order to finalise the matter, it was resolved that the suggestion of broadeasting from a children’s home be tried out, with a view to the periodical inelusion of such broadcasts if found satisfactory. Some time was spent in the helpful discussion of features of the regular children’s sessions, and a number of useful suggestions were made,