BOY SCOUTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18229, 13 November 1924, Page 4

BOY SCOUTS.

RETURN OF ARAWA PATROL.

' BADEN POWELL'S APPRECIATION.

(FfIESS AS3CCIATICK TZL2GEAM.) WELLINGTON, November 12. The Arawa Patrol of Boy Scouts Tvhich represented the Dominion at the -Imperial Jamboree in connexion with tho Empire Exhibition at Wembley, arrived in Wellington to-day Ivy tlie Climaroa from Sydney. The parly '.wont by the Arawa in June, via, Suez, and in London changed their return passages with the Australian Scouts, enabling them to return via Sue-/, it'id Sydney, making a round the world trip. ' The boys were in charge of Scoutmaster F. W\ Sandford, of New Plymouth. anil :■ tlie Scouts camo from Auctdund, Bulls, Ncrw Plymouth, Wellington, and Christchurch. All returned in excellent ; :health. Tlicy had a trip through Eng- . land, visiting Lord an« Lady .Livor- ■ pool at Harkholmo, Lincolnshire A\ elbeck Abbey, Nottingham, York, Man-1 chesfcer, Stratford-on-Avon, Oxlord. i Birmingham, and London. They spenta Sunday with the Chief Scout, 'jen- : eral Sir Jlobert Baden Powell at Pax, ;i I week at the Jamboree at Wc-rnbley I'ix- I V hibition, and attended the Intimation-; ' .al Jamboree at Copenhagen, where they j were reviewed by King Christian of j Denmark, and shown over dairy farms- i and factories. AVonderful hospitality , was extended to them by the- Danish j . peoplo. While in England they *c-re inspected by the King at Buckingham Palace, and the Prince of Wales a T " I Duke of Connaught, at Wembley. I ney j \ took part in an impressive service rouno the "rave of tho Lnknown \Varrior in . Westminster Abbey. They wer« met, -in Wellington by Scout-mistress W»- ' • son, daughter of Sir James Wilson, ai>< General Andrew, Chief Scout Comm.ssionor, and conducted to Government • House to meat the Governor-General, who sent congratulatory messages to th The°'fbilowing letter from Sir Robert ! Baden-Powell has been forwarded to, , the Chief Commissioner (Bngadier-Gen- ' eral A. W Andrew) by his Excellency, 'Lord Jellicoe, who adds his own congratulations on the good impression ' made at Home by the Arawa Troop o* Bey Scouts:— ; The Boy Scouta Association, ' • 25. Buckingham Palace road, . ? London, S."\\ .1. September 10th, 1924. • Dear Lord Jellicoe, — ' I feel that I must write this line, m ; confirmation of tho cable already sent to yen, to tell Your Excellency how delighted wo have all—from his Majesty ; downwards —been with the contingent of Scouts who came aver to representNew Zealand at the Imperial and International Jamboree < f, S' Their keenness, efficiency arid good ■ Spirit have earned the aomiraticn of ' : their bro-ther Scouts from all parts of - : the 'world, and their behaviour in the ! Stadium, ' in camp, and, more particularly, in the public places where they },ljav® been sightseeing, has been, a-credit '•£o the Scout brotherhood and has worthily upheld the traditions of our move-

ttient. . I only hope that :the hpys have/bene- ■ fited fromtheir stay as much as we ■ have enjoyed having them hero. • It yas a very .great pleasure-to "me iwrgorily to liave Major Sandford to stay with us for a few days and to hear frcin him at first hnnd of th© prepress - 7?biVh Scouting if> making in New Ze%- ! land under your Excellency's kindly enoottragement:—rTo«r3: tmly, ..