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WELCOMED AT SYDNEY AUSTRALIA'S EXAMPLE. (Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.) SYDNEY, May 16. Major-General Baden-Poweii iva,; accorded an enthusiastic welcome by a largo gathering. Tho guard of honour consisted of Boy Scouts. A civil reception was subsequently held in tho Town Hall. Replying to the toast of his health, the General said that Australia had set the rest of the Empire a grand example in its universal training. ''Already," he said, "some of our mends who do not look us straight in the face because they have a bit of a squint, are looking beyond their own confines. We have got to watch them." Australia, he continued, h'a.i taken up the question of self-defence in tho nick of time. Sir Joseph Ward said he was'glaJ, as a New Zealander, to welcome General Baden-Powell, who'had done more for the Empire by the Scout movement than in all his daring deeds.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10638, 17 May 1912, Page 5
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159BADEN-POWELL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10638, 17 May 1912, Page 5
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