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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22516, 26 September 1938, Page 10

"I am very perturbed at the use being made of week-end camps," said the Dominion Chief Commissioner, Mr H. Christie, at the boy scout conference in Wellington. "I am all for weekend camps, properly used, but I am sure that thevuse being made of the Sabbath is not in accord with the wishes and ideals of the Chief Scout (Lord Baden Powell). I want to emphasise to commissioners the importance- of Sabbath observance in the conduct of camps, and of realising that Sunday should • mean a great deal in relationship to the life of the boy. There's little enough reverence in the world to-day, and we ought to hold fast to what we have and keep proper observance of the Sabbath." To be awakened in the early hours of the morning and find a perfect stranger in the hall outside their bedroom, with all the lights of the house on, was the alarming experience of a New Plymouth man and his wife. The woman of the house was disturbed from her sleep at 3.15 a.m. by the noise and she roused her husband. Clambering from his bed to investigate he pulled on his slippers and opened the door to the hall—and ran into a Strang man who was obviously under the influence of liquor. "Where do you think you are?" the owner of the house asketf- The intruder replied: "I really don't know; where am I?" He was most chagrined when he discovered his error, and after making profuse apologies, withdrew unsteadily to seek Ms own home.