COMMISSIONER'S LETTER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 12

COMMISSIONER'S LETTER

"ROB1N HOOD."

Dear Scouts,— There are very few you in N.ew Zealand who have got or even attempted to get the Bushmah'e Thong. Like the King's Soout Badge, it is an award that you win bit by bit. Firstly, you must be a first-class Soout. Well every Scout hopea to be that. As well as being good at mapping, first aid, axemanship, and a number of other jobs, to be a firstclass Soout meang that you are a first-class chap, and I think that that is what eaeh one of us wants to be. Secondly you must have the Camper's Badge and two others, one to be ohosen from eack of the following lists Naturalist, Stalker, Tracker, Forester, Btarman, Weatherman. These are all badges for a real Scout; badges that only an outdoor man, could hope to win. You will not find any of the so-called "Parlour Scouts" wearing a bushman's thong. The Cam^er's Badge, as well as asking you to the various advanced knots, and know the rations required for a week-end camp, expects you to have camped with your troop or patrol for 18 nights, not all at one time, of course and to have camped out alone or with one otlier Scout for three nights. By the time you have done all that you should be a fairly efficient Scout, to say the least of it. I think every one who was there will agree that the Hastings concert was a great success, and all the Scouts will wish to thank the artists, the theatre staff and all those -kind friends who helped so willingly to make every thing run so smoothly. — Yours, ever,