FROM THE DEEP SEAS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 925, 19 March 1930, Page 14

FROM THE DEEP SEAS

rHIS week an unexpected visitor called at tlie Wigwam, and with him came a tang of many oceans and a vision of wide horizons. He was more conversant with the “wheel’s kick and the wind’s song” than the sheltered ways of the landsjnan, for had he not harkened to the age-old call of the sea? A Deep-sea Scout no less—the first of his calling to seek out the Scout authorities of this City. He is a member of a new branch of the Boy Scout movement—that ever-growing brotherhood that is represented in all corners of the globe. About a year ago Deep-sea Scouting became an offshoot of the parent movement, with the object of bringing together Scouts at sea and of keeping its members in touch with brother Scouts at the various ports of call. The same and yet different. Neither a Land Scout nor a Sea Scout—rather a Land Scout who has gone to sea seeking new lands and remembering old traditions. The Boy Scout movement is twenty-one years okl; Deepsea Scouting is still in its infancy, hut the Fleur-de-lys and the Scout’s smile are still emblems of true boyhood the wide world over. REDFEATHER.