BOY SCOUTS' CENSUS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 13

BOY SCOUTS' CENSUS.

YEAR'S INCREASE OF 66,000* <noK ov% ow* countonuotv.) LONDON, January 20. V Mr Claude Fisher, the Presa-Officer' of the Boy \Scouta, -writing in thfe "Daily Mail/' say* that a special effort was made to complete the Bpy Scout census for 1930, before the Chief S<sou£ left for New Zealand, and' just before he sailed he was . given the., welcome'< news Boy Scouts in 1 the Empire alone had increased. by more thajL. 66,000 daring the yeajr»} , The Empire's Scouts now number o£ whoa 438,008 are,in the%nited Kingdom, and 3445 are British BooaW in foreign countries. Lord Baden-Powefr said"l Khalf-si-pected, after the exceptional effort «f the great-Jamboree &V 1928, that r * jfc-! action would sot in. But,' on the contrary, the zeal' Btitoul£t<ssf>by that'teyent. ha* apparently ~lpd{ everyone to. ; *wt, forth,, extra effort*. - jWe. havrf looted* back only o&Ce "during the war 'years,* since 290&-vw^ ,«npibered 31 toJd., jta go-ahead be cheerily-jplsrod, and not an.abstroso; science to befdre&rily -studiSiL" ' ■ fv * *3w increase in number o&Stfoutc hid" been general throughout the country. x Oa*y thrpo s counties fail to. ferea«e—Westttttretond and. ChraberLmfl)