"B.P.'S" VISIT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1436, 10 May 1912, Page 4

" B.P.'S " VISIT.

DEFENCE DEPARTMENT ASSISTING. In connection with tho visit to Wellington of Lieutenant-General Sir R. S. Baden-Powell, Chief of tho Boy Scout movement, a deputation of those interested in tho local Boy Scout organisation interviewed the General Officer Commanding the Now Zealand Forces (Major-Gen-eral A, J. Godlcy, C.13.) with reference to certain .arrangements :n regard to tho visit. Subsequently, tho General anroimccd that tho Government had approved of tho suggestion that arrangement bo made for General Sir R, Budcu-Pcwel to meet as many of the hoys as possibieBov Scouts, junior cadets, and senior endots—in the various centres visited by him during his New Zealand tour. Employers and others are to 1)0 invited to eo-oper. ate by granting the necessary leave to all lads desiring to attend the 'rmly at Newtown Park on tho afternoon of May SO, which date falls on a Thursday, i'lif suggestion lias been made that n half-holidav be declared for that oeouS''on, or, alternatively, that the statutory weekly half-holiday be observed on the Thursday of that week instead of tho Wednesday. ... , . ~. ' Further details will be issued iator.