INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1921, Page 6

INGLEWOOD.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) September 10. Better weather than that experienced by the Inglewood Boy Scouts for their annual camp-fire concert could not have been desired. But there are other factors besides meteorological ones that tend to decide the fate of such gatherings; amongst them must be reckoned the great frequency with which of late the people of Inglewood have been asked to attend functions of one sort and another, for the most varying objects, and then money is not plentiful nor worth so much when you get it as it used to be. These, amongst others, doubtless were reasons for the meagre attendance in support of so good a cause as the Scout movement undoubtedly is. Mr. J. Wilson’s orchestra opened the evening’s programme with a selection well rendered and equally well received. The opening was followed by a Scout stunt, “Saluting the Flag”, and the National Anthem, after which songs were given by Mr. W. J. Smith and others, whose names were practicably unobtainable owing to the original plan of camp-fire being broken by the non-attendance of hoped-for performers. Recitations by Scouts and volunteering friends helped to fill the evening’s “bill of fare”, included in which the items by Digger Booth should not be forgotten. His appearance was hailed with cheers, and whenever he attempted to leave the stage he was recalled by the vociferous applause of the juvenile audience, to whose sense of humor his per- ! formance apparently particularly appealed. ■ During the evening the Rev. Mr. Stanton, I district scoutmaster, announced the fact !of the annual meeting of the Inglewood ' Scouts being dated to take place at the Scouts’ Hail on September 22, to which function he, in the name of the whole troop, extended a hearty invitation to all who took interest in the Scout movement. S.M. Blackball, of St. Mary’s Troop, extended a hearty invitation to all to their gathering to be held at New Plymouth on Labor Day.