PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 November 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A London cable says the Duke and Duchess of York sail for Kenya (East Africa) on December 4. They return to England in April. A Christchurch telegram announces the death of Captain S M McGee aged 61, for man? years'a member of tho defence staff and lately district paymaster

iVl, 'y Edwin Montague, ex-member of the House of Commons, i s dead, says a London cable.

The Boy Scouts’ Chief Commissioner, General Andrew', who. is’ on a tour of the Dominion arid was' in Hawera over the week end, has seen a mi *7 soldiering' service abroad. If will be of interest to know that he was in South Africa during the War from 1899-1901, and that he commanded the Sixth, and later the Tenth N Z Contingents. He is also a great traveller and has been through most parts, of Africa, and has travelled extensively in other parts of the world. Speaking to a Star representative he said he was very sanguine of the. future of the Scout movement. Since assuming control he had endeavoured to reorganise eveiy district and in collaboration w'ltri local committees to enlist the co-operation of men who occupied influential positions m the different dstriqts, ,and iaiso to secure the I services of assistant commissioneis and .scoutmasters who were likely to have a permanent interest in the work and so ensure a continuity of effort He said the progress in the Dominion had, been very marked and the numbers had increased very fast and satisfactorily. Speaking of the scheme of building a hall in each .centre, he said he hoped the committees would proceed cautiously and see that the arrangements made by them w'ere such as to isecure permanence. He w’as very eulogistic in his commendation of the work of the Hawerai ladies’ com-3 mittee, mainly through whose efforts the scheme for building had been made possible. He said he eonfifidently looked for a period of growth and increase of influence in the w'ork of the Scouts in Haw'era and district. General Andrew' left for Waverley and Wanganui to-day, where he w'ill endeavour to secure an assistant commissioner for that district.