SCOUT WEEK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1942, Page 4

SCOUT WEEK

APPEAL FOR MORE HELPERS GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S MESSAGE. PLACE FOR EVERY CHILD. Scout Week is being observed in the Wairarapa and throughout New Zealand this week; An appeal is being made for Scouters, helpers and examiners to take the.place of those who have answered their country’s call. “Every child in New Zealand should be a Scout or a Guide, a Wolf Cub or a Brownie. That must be our aim.”— Such was the appeal made to the Dominion Boy Scout Commissioners’ Conference, by the Dominion Chief Scout, the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall. “I would ask all parents in New Zealand,” the Governor-General continued, “to help in this great Work by encouraging their children to join and by taking an interest in thhir Scouting activities when they have joined, for thus the wholesome influence of family life’, on Which oiir civilisation is built up. can work together with Scout training fob the safe keeping of oiir heritage.” He declared he was convinced that Scouting could do more than anything else to fit the children of New Zealand to carry the vast responsibility which would face them when they grew up. The Chief Commissioner and Dominion Executive set themselves to the task of considering how best they might prove the determination of the Scout movement in NeW Zealand to be worthy of the Dominion Chief Scout’s call, and the observance of Scout Week was agreed upon.

Although the programme originally intended for Scout Week had to be modified, mainly on account of petrol restrictions, arrangements are in hand to bring before the Masterton public some aspects of Scouting at the Weekend.

In commending Scout Week, the Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) said the movement deserved the fullest support from every section of the community in the present objective of increasing the strength of the Boy Scout movement throughout New Zealand by 30.000 new Cubs, Scouts and Rovers, together with two thousand new adult Scouters and helpers.