INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1922, Page 6

INGLEWOOD.

A BOY SCOUT’S FUNERAL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) That was a truly graceful tribute, prompted by fine manly sympathy for the widowed mother, which the .Stratford Boy Scouts, to the number of 28, led by Scoutmaster Humphrey, paid to the memory of Scout Arthur Bunyan, of the Inglewood troop, by attending his funeral on Wednesday afternoon, during a typical Taranaki rainstorm, such a downpour in fact, as might well have prevented any but intimate relatives of the deceased from attending. The deceased lad had proved himseii a worthy member of the Inglewood Scouts’ troop, “Humphrey's own,” and very appropriately a. strong gathering of that body, as well as senior boys of the Inglewood school, assembled to pay their last respects to their late comrade. A number of wreaths also were I contributed by the school, but the pre- ■ sence of the contingent from Stratford under his own former leader, founder of the troop to which he belonged, is specially noteworthy, furnishing as it does a striking example of the bond of fellowship, so strong amongst the scoiits, as well as of their readiness to do a kind act whenever opportunity offers, for surely this exhibition of sympathy may reasonably be hoped to mitigate in some measure the sorrow of the bereaved family. The deceased lad was a particularly likeable one, who had won the good opinion of both teachers and schoolmates. Industrious, honest, genial and always trustworthy, he gave promise of a useful life, and to hits surviving •friends it seems hard that he should have been ent off just when his career adeemed about to be beginning. It is to be hoped, however, that his example will have left good effects on his comrades that will not be lost entirely.