Wild Ducks on the Tramp.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 February 1914, Page 2

Wild Ducks on the Tramp.

In these days of trains, steamers motors, and other forms of exertionpreventers, it is refreshing to record the successful conclusion of a stranu* ous march from Auckland by a Fart y of New Plymouth Boy Scouts under the command of Major F. W. Sandford (says a district excuange). The little band of eight returned to New Plymouth with a flutter of fl dgß and with sun-browned, happy faces which nlainly showed that the boys had greatly enjoyed their novel holiday They were, too, as fit as fiddles and as tough as timber, and the faci that they had napped their long tramp of 220 miles by covering forty, four miles in under two days did not seem to worry them n the least. The "Wild Ducks," as the patrol 18 called, left New Plymouth F* °Ut °n trek fol' h<"*e. All their baggage was carried on a 6£ cwt trek cart which they had built for themselves, and they slept in beds only and' forT f*? tram^