SCOUT NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1938, Page 5

SCOUT NOTES

(By Rama.)

Calling all lowbrows with this game! You take a certain kind of receptacle (paper bag to you) and fill it with peanuts or other nuts. Said receptacle is hung in centre of room. Players, blindfolded in turn, swing round three times and, armed with a short stick, have to try to swipe the bag! Test for sense of direction (and speed off the mark), for when the bag is broken its contents are anybody’s property. Work out your own details.

There was a good attendance of Scouts and Cubs —from both St. Matthew’s and Mo Katoa Groups at Church Parade on Sunday. A large party of Rover Scouts visiting Masterton from Wellington joined the Scouts attending the service at St. Matthew’s Church.

All Scouts are reminded that the Dominion Chief Commissioner (Mr Christie) will be speaking from 2YA today at 7.30 p.m. As the St. Matthew’s Troop holds its parade on Friday night, arrangements are being made to enable the Scouts to hear the broadcast.

An investiture ceremony will take place at 6.30 p.m. on Friday, at the Masterton Public Hospital, of the four boys who have recently joined the movement. St. Matthew’s Scouts are ■asked to meet at the main gate at 6.30 p.m., and we mean 6.30 p.m.

All Scouts and Cubs are eagerly await ing tomorrow morning, when they are to form a guard of honour at the wedding of the late District Cubmaster, Miss Dillon. All Scouts and Cubs to be at their respective dens at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow. And please be on time.

We welcome these new tenderpads into pack life: —Eric Olsen, Jack Ryan, Keith Olsen.

We welcome two Tenderfoots into the brotherhood:— J. Hancock, G. Youngquest.

The Mo Katoa Committee held a successful social gathering in their den, Dixon Street last Saturday. The attendance of parents, friends, Scouts, and Cubs, numbering over a hundred, was very gratifying to the committee, who had put in much hard work to make the evening a success. There was a varied programme of scouting games, competitions, musical items, and dancing. The prize for one competition, which was keenly contested, was a child’s dinner wagon, made by A. S. M. Allsop and won by Mrs Griffin. Mr R. Donald’s mouth organ solos were greatly appreciated by young and old. The grown-ups entered into the Scout games with great enthusiasm and energy, but with varied success, as one may imagine, but nevertheless enjoyed it as much as the boys. The ladies’ committee deserve much credit for the manner in which they managed the supper arrangements. According to the boys this was the best item on the programme.

Another social gathering will be held in about a month’s time —we don’t know when, but watch Scout notes and “Be Prepared,” because there is going to be something good next time. What about some of you chaps from other parts of the district coming along and taking away all the competition prizes (if you can).

Someone wants to know who “I Pop” is. Well, you will jolly well have to find out for yourselves.

And please send us along your reports—Eketahuna, Carterton, Gladstone, Greytown, Martinborough, Featherston —we want to hear of your activities, badges gained etc. Send them to R. Isles, e/o St. Matthew’s Troop, or to D. Bannister, c/o Mo Katoa Troop, Masterton.