SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL.
An announcement that frill be of interest to all sections of the- community is that Lioutenant-General Sir Robert Ba-den-Powell will lecture here on Wednesday evening, May 29. It has been-possible to arrango only this lecture owing to tise shortness of the Generals stay in New Zealand. For several years past tho name of Baden-Powell has been a household one, far not only was he commander of the defenco of Mafeking, but he is tho founder of the Boy Scout movement now firmly established all over the world, and it is on this last-mentioned subject that the General will principally speak. Ins lecture in Auckland will bo given on "Scouting in Peaco nnd War," which will be illustrated' by a series of interesting pictures takciV in camp during tho Boer War and also scenes from tho quiet camps of "the Bov Scouts, This lecture will positivlv W the only one delivered by Sir Robert Baden-Powell in Wellington, as he leaves the next day for Chrietchurch where Messrs. J. and N. Tail, in whose hands the arrangement of the tour ie, hove booked him to appear on May 31.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 6
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190SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 6
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