BOY SCOUTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1926, Page 4

BOY SCOUTS.

(Contributed.) Owing to the. unpleasant weather conditions last week-end lin* camp planned by the .Second Troop did not take place. If line, it will be held at a similar (hue, place etc. this week. Will all scouts of this troop please note t!v>t last week’s alteration of time-table was for that week only and that the usual Friday meeting Is being held this week and in future? The Second Pack is still very active. Since the last notes were published Cub S. Blank has gained his First Star and Sixers .J. Huberts and C. Duncan, with Second I>. Spence, have each passed the tests' for the Athletes Badge; C. Duncan has also gained his Collector’s Badge. The four Sixes in the Pack have boon playing off a series of football matches among themselves, to date the Brindies have won two games and the Browns and Blacks one each. These games will ho continued for the next f. w weeks on Saturday mornings as fains weather allows. Tt is hoped to imvc a team from the whole Pack ready for a few games before the end of the season. With .reference to recent remarks on the subject of juvenile thrift it is worthy of remark that ever since the birth of the movement a savings l ank account has been one of the qualifications for the grade tests for both scouts and cubs, and to the writer’s knowledge quite a number of accounts have been opened locally directly because of this. In dealing with this subject however, scout training endeavours to make it clear that true thrift consists in spending wisely rather than in indiscriminate hoarding. The local troop’s “Good Turn” last Christmas was made possible by the savings of the various patrols which had been collected from the scouts by their own hoy leaders. There is a certain danger if children are encouraged to save money with no immediate aim. and the spirit of the miser may tend to stunt- the development of some ■ of youth’s finest instincts.