SCOUTS’ EXHIBITION

Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 13

SCOUTS’ EXHIBITION

DISPLAY OF HOBBIES AND HANDICRAFTS OPENS IN PIONEER HALL TO-NIGHT Scouting is a movement that brings to light and develops every boy’s natural gifts, and is very often of inestimable benefit in finding the right employment for members in later life. Any support that the work receives ,from the public usually encourages the boys to carry on, and so it is confidently expected that the hobbies and handicraft exhibition which will be opened by the mayor (Rev. E. T. Cox) in the Pioneer Hall t»-night will be largely patronised. The most comprehensive display of work done by the boys associated with the Scout movement in Dunedin should prove of interest to all visitors. It will consist of model aeroplanes, model yachts, wireless outfits,/ photographs, leather work, metal work, woodwork, drawings and paintings, knitted articles, naturalists’ collections, engineering and pioneering models, camp* equipment, and a wide range of other useful models and appliances made by the boys. In addition, there will be a* troup display of rope making on a specially built machine, a pack display, and a rover Scout crew exhibition. For many years it has been the practice of Scouts to collect and mend broken toys, and special interest will therefore attach to the stall on which will be placed many mended tops which are now in perfect working order again. Special prizes are being offered for exhibits, while district commissioners will give highly commended certificates for articles made by the Scouts and entered in a miscellaneous section.

Arrangements have also been made .for a loan collection of working exhibits, one of the chief of which will be a large-scale model of the Sydney bridge, with miniature traffic passing to and fro.

The president of the Boy Scouts’ Association (Sir Percy Sargood) will preside at to-night’s opening session, and the certificates will be presented by the president of the Rotary Club (Mr J. G. Dykes). At 8.30 there will be a Scout campfire scene in which the participants will sing, solos and choruses and will be seen in a display of Scoutcraft and special stunts. Supper will be obtainable in the hall. The exhibition will open again at 2 o’clock to-morrow afternoon and continue until 10.