COMMISSIONER'S LETTER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 188, 26 August 1937, Page 10

COMMISSIONER'S LETTER

' 7 vv*r - " "ROBIN

HOOD."

Dear Scouts,— I wonder i£ any of you took advantago of the warm nights this last week for wide games and out-door meetings, Some of you will soon bethinking of week-end hikes and -camp.s; well, be prepar-ed; ^>ur- weather, cain-bo extremoly erratic at this time of year. Talking of out-door scouting rominds me of the scouts in Swazyland. Here is whafc their scout master says.: "Scouting in such a country is ideal, and at Mbabane we have no indoor headquarters, but meet-ou tho side' of a mountain. For camping the veldt is ideal in nrid-.winter, and last year a wonderful camp was held in the xeal wilds, forty-live miles away from, the nearest village,-and where we had to hunt for our meat, and even bake our own bread, Tho bush veldt is a hind of thin forest country, where one kas to be careful not to lose one'e eelf, while huHting for buck and othor game made tracking a real test.- - The river nearbv was tho haunt of crocodiles, and lions are still seen in the loeality. B.P. knew this country well, and one of tho scouts present was a son of a forinor member of his police forco when he was here." This sounds like the real thing. What price a crocodile in your bathing hole! Well done, Don Hamilton, our first King's Scout in Cofonation Year. "We all congratulate him and St. Auguetiue's Troop. To become a King's Scout is to do something reaTIy big. 1 hope to see more of you senior cliaps showing us what you are made of befrro fii« vsnr is nnt. — ^Yours ever.