YOUTH SERVICE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 69, 3 May 1946, Page 2

YOUTH SERVICE

SCOUTS AND GUIDES PARADE SUNDAY GATHERING AT AWAKERI Between forty and fifty Scouts, Guides and Brownies and pa reins attended a special Church at the Awakeri Hall last Sunday, when a youth service in «inch Scoutmaster Howell, Guide C o?.nmissioner Rushbrook and the Scout County Commissioner took part. The parading units assembled at the Awakeri school grounds and marched to the hall where the service was opened with the National Anthem and the handing over of the troop colours to the Commissioner. The renewal of the Scout, Guide and Brownie promises was an impressive procedure. Suitable prayers and hymns composed the service, which also included a scripture reading by Troop Leader John Hanna. An address by the County Scout Commissioner was listened to most attentively after which a concluding hymn brought the service to a close. It is hoped to arrange for another such combined service throughout the district and to make an endeavour for the Scouting and Guiding movements to work in closer association than hitherto.

Primitive—But Effective The match shortage is as acute as ever, and ways of overcoming it are testing the imagination of many inveterate smokers. One man’s solution of the problem has proved most efficient. The preparation was simple. He burnt a small square of rag and then smothered the flames just before the rag had reached the stage where it fell away in ashes. He placed the burnt rag in an ordinary matchbox. A very hard stone and a razor blade completed the equipment. And now, when he wants a light, he scrapes the blade sharply against the stone, the resultant spark falls on the rag, and the rag begins to smoulder. He lights his cigarette, and thumbs out the smoulder again. He claims that one square of rag, if properly nursed, will last at least a week.