BOY SCOUTS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1925, Page 4

BOY SCOUTS

| (Contributed). | At last week’s quarterly meeting of the 2nd. Hokitika Troop Committee, plans for dealing with the financial side of the trip to the Dunedin Jamboree were brought up-to-date the generous offer ol a “benefit’ euchre night from the R.S.A. being especially helpful. . It is expected that the scouts and cubs will appear in public once or twice before the end of the winter, .and quite a lot of preliminary training of the bows actually going to Dunedin has begun to show results. A lantern, tnsplav. and later on, an entertainmen.. are being arranged, with, it is hope .. ... i...t Knrimr.

a sports mooting m uie Scout lb Vcale, of the 2nd. Tro m. has gained his second proficiency badge —Ainbula ncema.ii— his two being at

present, the only scout badges in the town. So lar these badues have excited little competition locaTlv. hut the local boys will prohalih 11,,,-.]I 1 ,,,-.] add among their more decorated brother scouts from other centres next .January, and it. is to he hoped that a number of the badges will he gamed

in the three or four months that remain. • The Chief Commissioner. Bngadr-r----(tenoral S. IV. Andrew, has sent a circular loiter to all troops urging them to support the Jamboree whole-hearted-ly. and with the hacking of the Executive there should be no doubt ol a uotale and successful gathering. It appears that the Girl Guides are also holding a big gathering at the Exhibition. At the end of next month an lnterualional Pilgrimage to Rome lor Roman Catholic Scouts is arranged. At present New Zealand appears to he one id’ the very few countries where Roman C atholic Church Troops of Scents cm not exist, all hough of course, hoys ol everv denomination are members of the open* troops in the various parts of the Dominion. Most of the other religious bodies run troops of their own in the larger centres and these denominational troops are of toil very active indeed. _