BOY SCOUTS' CAMPS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2643, 14 December 1915, Page 3

BOY SCOUTS' CAMPS

RAILWAY STOP-OVER TICKETS; ■ By Telegraph.—Press Association. Ghristchurcli, December 13. Cokme! Gossgr<ive; Dominion Chief Scout, who has been in communication with the Minister of Railways. :re. obtaining school excursion stop-over . tickets for. scouts who go in to. camp during the holidays, has been requested to furnish ;,Mr. Hiley, General' Manager, ■ ai; once with particulars l Of the parties desiring to travel, the. number -in each 'party; station from and to, and dates, of. outwafjl and return journeys. . The first lady solicitor in Queensland was enrolled at Brisbane on Decern oer 7, in ney. " After the men leave hospital in Egypt or Malta they often have, some montis of convalescence in different 1 establishments, and frequently under clipatic conditions .-to which they are unaccustomed (writes an Australian correspondent in a Sydney newspaper). Here is a list of tho contents of the convalescence Kits now being dispatched ■ to Egypt: Two shirts, two . suits '.pyjamas, two pairs socks, two handkerchiefs, a toothbrush, a soft ctp, pair of kliaki cotton shorts, a cardigan, six* bachelors' butsix/safety pins,' a writing pad, pencil, and envelopes, two towels,, two washers, soa(>, a cotton hat, and a pair of. deck slioqs. Fifteen of the above kits are a hale, which is then wrapped in American oilcloth, and sewn up in hessian, A professional finish is lent to,the work by -the'■ maimer in' which the address is stencilled, "while a cloth label-bearing a manifest of contents is then stitched on. ■