SCOUT NOTES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 46, 10 March 1937, Page 13

SCOUT NOTES

COMMISSIONER'S OUTLOOK Founder's Day Service. I expect ypu have h®®n wpndering about our annual " Foundsr Js Day Service. .Unfortunately, it was desired by district headiuftvtsrs th&t it should bp ppstponed till idarch 21 pa aecount pf the epidemic and schools opening later. Arrangements ara being mado fo? this date and will be given eut later. Qur N®W RPPhting Year_ Mo.at gtoupg wiU be stnitjng off agam ghprtly. I da hppp you will all eome tpgether again full pf enthuaiasm. Let us mahe the caming year more t'scQuty" even than last. Mahe a determined effort to gain your flrst elass badge or, at any rate, good steps towards it. Don't forget getting yout tenderfoot and secpnd-'class badge are steps on to first-elass. Let us all look oyer the past year and find out what was pa? weahest point. It may be our attend'ance. Pgrhaps we were a bit un'dieiplined. There may not have been enough showipg of the seout spirit ixj our meetings, Again., we had nQt gpt enoggh object in Pnr naeetings. ThP court pf hpnpur naeant well, perhaps, but faund that Ihe prpgramme did nQt worh pat. Ask yourselves why, and spp if you ean pnt things rfghtAt aay rate, let us have live programmes and sptnething tp show for aR pur work. There is plepty ' of • time yet for campiag* Week-end cawps ean be most pseful and enjoyable as long as they are properly planned befprehand, and some uspfnl things done. | Ifipk fprward tp seeing yqu all again and meeting seouters 1 think Wedugsday, March 10, Rs our starting date, thpugh I am nPt very sure qf being there. However, that doesn't matter. I trust we shall get in more training this seaspn.— Qheerio. LITTLE JOHN. ""THE imm DQO ANGEL" High up iu the Oourts of Heaven to-day A little dog angel waits, With other angels he will not play, *For I know my master will eome,,, says he, (And when he comes he will call fpr me," And his master, far 'on the earth below, 6 As he sits in his easy cha|r, Porgets sometimes and he whistles lQW Eor'the dog that is not there, And the little dog angel copks his . ears And drpams that his master 's voice he hears. And I kuow, when at last his master waits Outside in the dark and cold iPor tbe hand of death to open the gate That leads to those courts of gold, The little dog angel 's bark Will conifort his eoul in the shivering dark. (Erom some overseas paper). Some years ago someone sent me these lines, ahd I Was ,sp struck with them that I copied them into a hook that I keep fqr the pnrpese, At the time J never thought they wonld ever be used by me to put in any seout nptes, but then I never thought I should ever be raked into this particur lar job. I wonder how many youngsters, and grown-ups, tqo, ever Tealise tha^ ali animals have their feelings jusfc the same as we have ourselves. I t.binic that a lot pf animals wonld get better treatment if people stopped to let that idea get into their minds before doing the things to animals and birds that they dP to them: Where is the fpn in climbiag a tree a»d robliing some poor Rttje bird pf its eggs_ You always kick up a fuss if anyone takes anything of yours, or breaks it. Why then should you do that to a bird which wili probablv be thinking much the same about your actions, as you wpuld be thinking abpnt some person you saw smashihg up your thinvs.

You are used tp freedpm, and wouldn't like to get eaged up for the rest of your life, so why eage up in a amall plape an animal or bird that has spent its early life roaming the wild. It ie anotber matter if it has been bom in saptivity, because it has known no other life. A canary, for instanee, has bfieome accustomed to small cages because, for many years, that has been his existence, but to put a goldfineh into a similar eage is not rxght because it has been uped to flying about where it wishes, iu a zoo or aviary the animals or birds are given plenty of spaee nowadays in which to give themselves the exercise they are accustomed to getting. SECOND HASTINGS TROOP Last Satqrday we held our annual interrpatrol sw.imming sports, After a cpuple qf fipe, hqt days the water was not sq cqld af'ter a}J. Here are the results— H for Huia Patrpl, X for Hiwis, and T for Tuis:r— 100 yards free style.-^A. Wilkins 1, N. Curtis 2, H. " LoveR-Smith, all Huias. Plain diving.-^-D. Oolello, H. and J. Aldridge (H) 1 equaj, J. Oody (T) and N, Curtis (H) 3 equal. 50 yard s breaststrqke, — H. LovellSmith (H) 1, D. Colellp 2, A. Christensen (K) 3. 75 yards medley (breast, back, free). --H. ^Lovell-Smith (H) 1, J, Aldridge 50 yards free.— M- Miebaelsen (K) 1. D. Colellq (H) 2, A. Soppitt (K) 3. 25 yards free.-^M. Michaelsen (K) 1, D, Colello (H) 2, J. Aldridge (H) 3Candlp race. — A. Soppitt (K) was the only one to arrive with his eandle alight. Patrol relay. — Huias 1, Kiwis 2. The Huia patrol was the winner. with the Kiwis second. The champ iou seout was D. Colello, with H LovelbSmith. second. We pongratulate K. Richmond oi being eleeted second of the Kiwis, anc A. Russell second qf tlie Huias. The ''Naumai" swimming contest ii

. to be held on Saturday, Mareh 20. Sq let us as scouts set an oxample 1 to all others by remembering the sixth l pf the seout laws, that all aeouts have promised, at their investiture as seouts, » to do their best to keep.