BOY SCOUTS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1925, Page 4

BOY SCOUTS

(Contributed The Troop Committe nl t l’.o Second Troop met on Tuc-day nod among other business icicivcd no excellent K'port to the euchre toimmment honciil held In-t wed:. Through the Id mini's-. ,; I iho Ii.K.A. and a number of other energetic friends of the troops, the result is that the hoys, who are to attend the .lamhoree. are sure of substantial help in the rather large sum which they have been endeavouring to earn and stive for many months )iasL towards the rail and camping expenses oi' the three weeks’ expedition next. January. Xot the least satisfactory part has been the keen energy m ticket selling and general “boosting” liy the Wolf Culis and Scouts, who are themselves unable to join in the trip to the .Jamboree. At their week-end camp last Saturday a few of the Scouts cycled to Lake .Mahinupua. where a very busy day was spent preparing for the training; camp which is being held there during the first part of the school holidays. It is hoped here to get together the complete party which is to go south in the New Year and to see that in general camp organisation and in the particular display which they are to give a satisfactory standard is put up. The Second Hokitika Troop and Pack celebrate their second “birthday" next mouth and several shemes towards doing this fittingly are in course of preparation. Apart from, the camp the only meetings of the Second Troop during the. school holidays will he Friday. August -Ist, at 10a.m. for Wolf Cubs, and Sunday, August 30, usual 4.15 p.m. “Scouts Own.”