A FINE HEADQUARTERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 14

A FINE HEADQUARTERS

"AKELA."

Dear Cubs and Scouts, — Have you noticed that you can often find out quite a lot about people from looking at their homes. And it's just the same with cub packs and scout troops — a clean, neat and tidy den usually shows a smart group. The other week-end I saw the den of a scout troop I Would very much like to meet, All Saints, of Palmerston North. Behind the large hall, clean and. well swept, was a room for patrol corners and troop stores. Here eaeli patrol had its little den with its patrol flag and staves in their racks ; knotting ropes a.nd signalling flags all in their places. On shelves round the walls were the tents, ground'-sheets and cooking-pots, all put away neatly after the summer camp. Near one door was the trekcart, folded up to take less room. On one wai! the troop naine board, carved by a Palmerston man who did his good turn to Scouting b'y giving one to each troop. A smaller room beliind, hung with skins and pictures of Mowgli and the jungle animals, did duty for courts of honour and group committee meetings. Here also was kept the cub pack totem, well hung with braid, showing that many proficieney badges had been won by the paek. And I wasn't surprised to see hung on the wall a large challenge shield showing that this group was judged to be the best in Palmerston. And the cubs had helped to make it

so. — Good Hunting.