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LEAGUE OF YOUTH.
Increase in Membership.
As a compliment to the Melbourne
Boys' High School branch, which is the
strongest numerically, the second an
nual meeting of the League of Youth
of Australia was held in the school
memorial hall, Forrest Hill, South
Ynrrn. Inst lihrht.
Mr. W. Williams slated in his annual
report that the league membership had
Increased to 119 groups, with n mem
bership of 5026, and all, with the ex
ception of two or three, were associa
ted with schools and had teachers as
group leaders. The secretary paid a
tribute to the generosity of "The Age"
in making available a column in the
Young People's section each week for
league publicity and the promotion of
its objectives. There was a growing
public interest in roadside tree plant
ing, as was evident along the Dandenong-
Oakleigh road and the Western High
way. Reference was also made to the
loss the movement hnd suffered by the
resignation of its first organiser, Mr.
A. J. Swaby, who, however, will still
retain his position on the executive.
Greater stress would be made during
the coming year on the preservation of
existing forests and reafforestation of
despoiled areas, which were the prin
cipal aims of the league, A request
had been made to the Education de
partment that afforestation should be
Included as a subject In the school cur
riculum.
In an informative lecture, illustrated
with colored lantern slides, on the Won
derland of the Grampians, Rev. O. L.
Lang, a member of the Royal Australa
sian Ornithologists' Union and the league
council, appealed to his youthful listeners
to preserve Australian flora and fauna.
Tho audience's appreciation of the
lecture was expressed to Mr. Lang by
the Director ot Education (Mr.
McRac).
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