SCOUT NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1938, Page 2

SCOUT NOTES

(By “Rama.”) Once more the pen wags and the ink flows, and we bring to you Scout notes of the week. Now that the camping season is almost on us, I would urge all patrol leaders to endeavour to get out of doors and give their Scouts an idea of how to make themselves cosy when they spend their first night under canvas, as quite a number will be doing this summer. Anyone can spend a night in a tent outdoors, but not everybody can keep warm or dry when the wind changes to the south or a downpour comes in the middle of the night. You must of course be very particular where you pitch your tent so that if it rains the water will drain away, and not make a private swimming bath in the tent, as will be the case if you pitch it over a hollow.

Cows are mysterious beasts especially when they happen to find a tent pitched over their favourite clover patch. Most certainly “Brindle” will want to go inside and when in invariably wants to get out again. And usually the getting out process is most trying for both the tent and the cow, for if “Brindle” has horns they will want to get hooked up. Then something has got to give way—it usually is the tent.

I know one patrol who spent a night in a cow paddock, and it cost them a whole six shillings after “Strawberry” had made morning inspection. So watch those cows! On Saturday, September 24, the St Matthew’s Scouts and the Weraiti and Tararua Guide companies are holding an evening of grand entertainment and fun which every Scout and Guide must not miss. Every Scout in St Matthew’s Troop is expected to see that all the members in his patrol are there. Tell mother not to let you forget the 24th. Your Scouter or Guider will tell you the time and place. St Matthew’s No. 1 Cub Phck are working overtime on a little play they are practising and I dare not say, but I really believe they are going to show the Scouts how to act. When Robin and Lyall get their heads togetherwell there’s no telling what’s on. Bill has got plenty to say, but perhaps at the wrong time. However, keep on going, Cubs! The members of the N.Z. Jamboree team will be in Palmerston North during Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18, when they will meet Scputers of the Wairarapa and Manawatu districts in order to discuss arrangements for the N.Z. Centennial Jamboree, to be held'at Heretaunga from December 27, 1939, to January 8, 1940. This is the biggest undertaking ever tackled by the movement in New Zealand and each Scout in Masterton will want to join with his 5000 brothers in the fun and life of a jamboree camp. So start now and make yourself proficient in the art of camp craft and then you will be able to show our overseas friends that we here in New Zealand can camp in just as Scouty a way as any other country.