SCOUT BUILDING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 111, 27 May 1937, Page 9

SCOUT BUILDING

Progress of Campaign for Funds The progress of the campaign, for funds to build Scout rooms in Hastings was reported on at the meeting of the Hastings area committee of the Boy Scout Association held on Tuesday. Mr. Dudley .Newbigia ptesided over Mrs. Lovell-Smith and Messrs. Cooksey, C. A. Hendry, Hutton, H. E. Phillips and A. L Rainbow. Mr. PhiUips reported that donations in kind promised towards ,the f und for building the Seout hut naj. Hastings would substantially reduce the ultimate cost, and cash donations had already reached £62, but contributions had come in more slowiy during the last few months. The urgent need for the building was stressed by Mr. Cooksey, and Mr. Rainbow suggested that Mr. Cooksey ehould make personal calls on those likely to be interested. He suggested that the available funds should be transferred to a post office account with Messrs. Hendry and Phillips as trustees. Mr. Cooksey mentioned that following the reorganisation at general headquarters he Tiad been appointed a commiesioner for the North Island. His new duties would make it impossiblo for him to make the local contacts he had made formerly, and Mr. Cooksey suggested that an • assistant-district eommissioner should be appointed for Hastings. ; It was decided that each troop should contribute '5/- a year to area funds, and the committee to meet regularly every month.