BOY SCOUTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1926, Page 2

BOY SCOUTS.

(Contributed.) The Picnic to Lake Mahinapua last Saturday, in spite of a rather dubious weather outlook about starting time, was attended by a fair number of parents and friends as well as the scouts and cubs and all seem to have had a thoroughly enjoyable lime and to favour the holding of further similar functions. The boys have used some of the other fine weather of the school holidays in expeditions into the bush and altogether the week has been a. busy one. Next Tuesday is the quarterly meeting of the parents and friends of the Second Troop and any members of the public interested in the movement will he very welcome if they can come along at 8 p.m. Plans for the celebration of the AVorld Scout Festival on April 23rd, of Anzac Day and of Empire Day, are for consideration and other important business will be before . the meeting. w Cub Seconds AY. A r enle and D. Speneo have passed the Tests which entitle ' them to receive the Collectors’ Badge —which, by the way, lias no connection with “ passing round the hnt. v In a. cable from Germany recently published mention is made of the Boy Scouts in the United States as train- ' ing for the Army. The mistake is a natural one for the Germans to make as the German Bov Scouts so-called have such militarist tendencies that they have not so far been able to secure recognition from the Bureau of International Scouting, hut in the rest of the world the fable that Boy Scouts and soldiers have any other connection than a common loyalty to their King or country is no longer credited. In New Zealand especially anything that might lie mistaken for military methods or uniform is expressly forbidden.