SCOUT NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21752, 21 June 1934, Page 15

SCOUT NOTES

[By Gun Woi-j.] After discussion the executive has decided to withdraw the Peace Flag and hang it in Metropolitan Headquarters. A cup has been presented to the movement, known as the District Commissioners’ Cup. It will be awarded annually to the group gaining the highest aggregate of marks in the following :— Religious attendance, hobbies show, district commissioners animal inspections, swimming competition, pioneering competition, ambulance competition, athletic competition, football competition, tenderfoot and tenderpad, second-class and first star, first-class estimates, tug-of-war, and Scout notes reports. The religious attendances section will commence in duly, and cards will be’ sent to Scooters before the commencement of that competition. Owing to the resignation of District Commissioner W. D. Pirrctt changes in the district staff have taken place, and the following is the new staff o—Southern District; Commissioner A. M’Calluin, District Scoutmaster A. S. Muric, District Cubmaster R. Watt. Northern District: Commissioner S. Thomas, District Scoutmaster W. Gray, District Cubmaster J. Livingstone. The tug-of-war ‘contest for the St. George Gup is causing much activity in the various troops. There is every indication that a most interesting competition will bo witnessed when the contestants meet each other in duly. The Christian Brothers Troop is to be commended for making all the necessary arrangements, and from the keenness it is showing other troops will have to bo right on the job to wrest the cup from this troop The secretary of the Christian Brothers Troop advises that teams are to consist only of bona fide Scouts, who must be under the ago of eighteen at the time of the closing of the entries. No person bolding a warrent can compete. Entries close with Mr P. J. Wilson, care Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. -Ltd., on dune 2u. The contest itself is to bo held at the Lyceum Hall. King street, on duly 10 and 13. The admission charges are sixpence each night, but Scouts.in uniform, will be admitted for threepence. In another few months the annual hobbies show will be held, and although' last year’s. entries were excellent it is hoped that this year’s effort will be a greater success. A wider scope is being given to the Cubs, and it is anticipated that record entries will he received in this part. The. Cubs of Dunedin seem to be proficient in the art of making sweets, and so accordingly a new section has been made to cater for these boys. The knitting section is much the same as last year’s, and no doubt boys will be spending many of these wintry evenings knitting different articles. The Cubmasters asked that a section be put in for their boys who were keen on making models, and an excellent section has been made out for this class. In a few weeks the schedules will be out Hobbies and handicrafts arc taking up more of the time of the average boy than before, and it is one of the aims of the movement to develop the spare time activities of the boys.