2YA Children's Session Committee

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 34, 6 March 1931, Page 4

2YA Children's Session Committee

Picnic Postponed MBPHTING of the 2YA Children’s Sessions Advisory Committee was held on Tuesday, February 10, Pastor W. G, Carpenter (Uncle George) presiding. There were also present:Mrs. L. Sommerville (Federation of ‘niversity Women), Mrs. Chatfield University Women), Mrs. Chatfield (Society for the Protection of Women and Children), Mr. G. W. Morgan (Radio Children), Mr. W. EB. Howe (Sunday Schools’ Union), Brigadier Grey (Salvation Army), Mrs. D. Basham (Aunt Daisy), Mrs. D. Evans (children’s organiser), and Mr. J. Ball. The principal subject discussed was the. proposed picnic, and it was decided, owing to the untoward happenings recently and the widespread concern occasioned by the earthquake, that it should be postponed. The committee approved of Uncle George substituting a special Anzac Day service for the ordinary sessions. Referring to the earthquake, Brigadier Grey said he was commissioned to voice the Salvation Army’s warm appreciation of the service rendered by 2YA. The officers at the station had given their fullest co-operation and radio had been of the greatest possible assistance to the Army, while the spontaneity of the people’s response to broadcast appeals had been wonderfully generous. Other speakers also eulogised the tremendous part radio had played in this time of emergency.