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BOY SCOUTS.

CHURCH PARADE AND CONSECRATION OF COLOURS. The annual training camp of the Manawatu and Oroua Boy Scouts Association was concluded yesterday, when the various units left by the afternoon train for their respective homes. The camp, which has been very successful from all points of view, was under the direction of Commandant. Slipper, of .Palmerston North, who expressed his thanks to all organisations and members of the general public who had interested themselves in the hoys’ welfare during their stay in Foxton. . The camp has been located at the racecourse, which locality is very convenient, for this purpose. It was necessary to impose certain restrictions as to boundaries, within which limits the boys were to operate, and it is to their credit that it can be said they observed the boundary limitations implicitly. The scouts were comfortably quartered in various buildings at the rear of the grandstand, meals being provided on the ground floor of this building. During the period of the camp no case of sickness was reported, and the general health of the camp was excellent. DAILY ROUTINE. The daily routine, as set out by the eamp standing orders was as follows:—6 a.m. reveille; 6.30 coffee and biscuits, carry on, clean up quarters, etc., 7.30, parade, salute the flag, morning prayers; 7.45 breakfast; 9 o’clock, parade, instructions as per syllabus, bathing parade; 10.30, easy all for 15 minutes; 11.45, dismiss; lunch at noon; 1.0 to 2.0 p.m., hour of silence (compulsory rest, all in quarters); 2.15, parade; 5.0 dismiss, 5.30, mass assemble, prayers, retreat at sunset, dip flag; fi.O, dismiss; 7.30, guard mounting for instruction; officers classes, Scouts’ recreation till last post; 8.30 first post, 9.0 last post: 9.30 lights out. CHURCH PARADE. On Sunday, at 11 a.m., a church parade was held in Victoria Park, when the consecration of colours also took place. The Foxton Silver Band was in attendance, and played a march as the Scouts marched in order to their positions before tho commencement of the sendee. The Band also accompanied the hymns, and played the National Anthem at the conclusion of the proceedings. Commissioner R. S. Abraham and his guests, Colonel Melville and staff and their wives and lady friends, and members of the Boy Seout Association, of N. were present, in addition to a number of the general public. The Rev. Scoutmaster Dent, of Palmerston N. conducted tho service, which was opened with the singing of the well-known hymn “Onward Christian soldiers.” After prayer, the Scripture reading was taken from the thirteenth chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. In his address to the Scouts, the Rev, Dent took as his subject the symbols comprising the Union Jack, upon which he based appropriate remarks. The. flag, he . said, contained three colours —red, white and blue —the crosses of England, Scotland.and Ireland, and the Cross in memory of Calvary. Red stood for sacrifice —sacrifice in times of peace and war. The true qualities of a gentleman were those which prompted him to sacrifice his own comforts for those of others —in the home, in camp, or in the daily routine; and the glory of the British Empire to-day was built upon the great sacrifice of millions of brave men in the years past. The white of the flag stood for purity. Purity was the essence of lasting greatness. No nation could maintain its greatness unles it was based on purity. Blue, continued the speaker, was a. symbol of loyalty; loyalty to home, school, Empire and God. The Scouts stood for loyalty. The Cross of Calvary stands for love, the foundation of these three things—/sacrifice, purity and loyalty, and the speaker said he prayed that these lessons would be well and truly learned in the Scout movement. CONSECRATION OF FLAGS. At the conclusion of the service the consecration of flags of the. Feilding Troop and No. 1 Palmerston N. Central Troop was conducted by the Rev. Scoutmaster Dent. The National Anthem played by the Silver Band concluded the proceedings. The camp was subsequently inspected by Colonel Melville and Commissioner Abraham, who expressed their pleaure of the very satisfactory manner in which the camp iyns conducted, and also remarked on the hearing of the Scouts and'their appearance and marching formation. The official visitors, accompanied by their wives and guests were enfertained at lunch. In the afternoon the Scouts gave a public display, when there was fi fair number of visitors present, mostly parents and friends of members of the troop. Mr Joseph Linklater, M.P., and His Worship the Mayor, of Palmerston N. (Mr F. J. Nathan), were also present. The boys staged a spectacular “stunt” the story of which was that two exhausted travellers in Arabia in their search for succour, sighted a Moor camp, upon which they duly called. The treacherous Arabs, while offering food and drink, murdered the wanderers. This incident was witnessed by a third. person, \ who returned in all haste to a Brit- ; ish camp, and broke the news, whereupon the soldiers set out without delay tp punish the treaoh-

erous ones. A battle royal took place as the tfoops advanced, in approved style, and the Arab stronghold was somi captured and the surviving members of the Arabian band summarily dealt with by a firing party. The attacking party were equipped with field ambulance gear, and stretcher bearers and Red Cross men rendered first aid to the wounded under heavy fire. The remainder of the afternoon was devoted to boxing contests between various members of the Scouts and the rendering of songs and relations, which was much appreciated by those present. We were informed that if is hoped to hold a much larger camp next year, comprising possibly three or four hundred Scouts, and if suitable arrangements'can be made the camp will again be held at Foxton.

During their stay in Foxton, the Scouts have conducted themselves admirably, and while enjoying themselves to the full have benefitted phy sically from the. open air life and camp training. These facts reflect very creditably upon Commandant Slipper and bis staff and we are sure that should Foxton he selected as the location of next year’s camp flic public will offer them the henrfisf nf welcomes.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2680, 8 January 1924, Page 3

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BOY SCOUTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2680, 8 January 1924, Page 3

BOY SCOUTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2680, 8 January 1924, Page 3

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