BOY SCOUTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1926, Page 4

BOY SCOUTS.

i (Contributed.) In spite of fclie usual wet night n ■ fiiir inmiber of parents and others gathered on .Monday to discuss the i housing question as far as it affects 11 io Scouts, iind the meeting was unanimous in authorising the Second i Troop to go ahead and endeavour to purchase the only really suitable place which is apparently available. The question of ways and means was left somewhat in the air. hut a certain sum is already available and the hoys have several plans already in preparation for raising the necessary balance so that provided the remaining parents and friends of the troop are as enthusiastic as those who braved the rain on Monday. the long delayed hopes of the troop to possess a home of their own should soon he realized. Umpire Day was celebrated by a flag rally at 8.0 a.m. on. Monday and the rest of the day was spent on the beach when games, badge tests and practices filled the lime until the Union -Tack was lowered and I he boys dismissed for tea. In the Second Pack during the past week Joseph .Huberts and TT. Win. Toohey were enrolled as Tenderpads, while Sixer Jack Boltorts lias passed his tests and gained the rank of a Two Star Cub. The Pack has been going ahead very well lately and quite a large proportion of the . improvement in keenness and efficiency is due to the work of the four “ sixers The C'ubmaster is hoping to get these four hoys away to a special little camp for the last days of the school holidays 1 so that their work for the hoys in their : charge may not delay their own progress in Cubbing. ' 1 'Will all Cubs please note that 1 another singing practice is fixed for ‘ this (Thursday) evening at 6.55 p.m. ? '