, “I am very perturbed at the use being made of weekend camps,” said the Dominion Chief Commissioner, Mr H. Christie, at the conference of the New Zealand Boy Scouts’ Association in Wellington. ‘‘l am all for weekend camps, properly used, but I am sure that the use being made of the Sabbath is not in accord with the wishes and ideals of the Chief Scout. Lord Baden Powell. I want to emphasise to commissioners the importance of Sabbath observance in the conduct of camps, and of realising that Sunday should mean a great deal in relationship to the life of the boy. There’s little enough reverence in the world today, and we ought to hold fast to what we have and keep proper observance of the Sabbath,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 3
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