SCOUT NEWS
founders' day boy scouts and guides PAY TRIBUTE. TO * CHIEF SCOUT COMMEMORATION OF BIRTHDAY To-morrow (Sunday) the Boy Scout and Girl Guidie Movenxent throughout the Domirdon will celebrate "Found^ ers' Day" a ceremony held to commemorate the birthdays of Lord S.nd Lady Baden-Powell. In Rotorua a combined church parade j Rotorua a combined church parade will be h'eld, the -scouts and guides as- " sembling at the railway station at 10.30 a.m. prior to attending a service at St. John's Presbytexian Church at 11 a.m. * It was in 1908, following an experimental camp held at Brownsea, Dorsetshire, England, that the Boy Scout Movenxent was first inaugurated by Lord Baden-Powell, th|e movement having now taken root ip. practically every country of the- world with a membership of neaxiy 2,500,000. In 1915 the Girl Guide Movement was also foundied by Lord Baden-Powell, it being granted a Royal Charter by His Majesty the King in 1923. The membership now totals over 1,000,000,. 586,000 of these being domiciled in thje British Isles.
District Parades Taneatua tfoop meets at the Post Offiee, Taneatua, at 10.30 a.m., and holds the parade at the Presbyterian Church. Waimana troop parades at the Waimana Church at 1.45 p.m. Whakatane troop and Cub *Pack meet at their headquarters at 10.30 a.m. and combine with the guides and hold a parade at the Methodist Church.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 466, 25 February 1933, Page 6
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225SCOUT NEWS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 466, 25 February 1933, Page 6
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