BOY SCOUTS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 5

BOY SCOUTS

PRESENTATION TO FOUNDER. ,United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—CopyngntJ. LONDON, Aug. 10. The Boy Scouts jamboree at Arrow Park is approaching its end. The gates will be closed to the public on Monday morning. The “Pilgrims’ \Yay” will ring for the three following days thereafter with the tramp of the youthful legions returning to the four corners of the world. General Baden Powell toured the Camp on horseback, and he then addressed five hundred of the Scoutmasters in brilliant sunshine.

Christian Holm, the Danish Chief -Scout, on behalf of the World’s Scouts, presented General Baden Powell with a Rolls-Royce motor car with a caravan trailer, and also with a cheque for £2.750, as well as his portrait in oil, and an illuminated scroll in a casket, paying a tribute to his “inspiration for making boys loyal and useful citizens, and teaching them the rules of the great game for which their loyalty and affeetjon would return in the coming years through the smoke of thousands of camp fires in cheery smiles and kindly actions, thus perpetuating international ties of friendship. The radiator of the car hears the Fleur De Lys, and is inscribed, “To Our Beloved Chief—From the Scouts of all the World.”

AN APPOINTMENT

PRESENTATION OF FLAGS.

(Received this day at 10 a.m.)

LONDON, August 11

Sir Alfred Pickford, Imperial Overseas Commissioner of Boy Scouts, has announced his resignation, which will take effect in October. His successor will bo Colonel Granville Walton.

Sir R. Baden-Powell has presented each Dominion with a flag, which has flown at the Cenotaph at Whitehall.