SCOUTS & CUBS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1942, Page 2

SCOUTS & CUBS

BUSY PERIOD LAST NIGHT FOR DEMONSTRATIONS THIS WEEK. ADVANTAGES OF MOVEMENT. The Masterton Cub packs and Scout troops paraded in force last evening and spent a busy hour and a half practising for their big efforts on Friday and Saturday. While one team was out on the fire engine others were building tripods, erecting tents and doing ambulance work, etc. The Cubs had quite a gallery of spectators watching their jungle games and Grand Howl. The boys are very keen to make Scout Week something to be remembered and to show the public just what those in the movement can do. Several new boys have already enrolled ,and it is hoped that this week’s demonstrations will attract many more. When a boy joins the movement, he attends for two hours one night a week, at a well-ventilated club room where he joins a patrol of six to eight jolly boys of his own age. He learns dozens of scouting games, which are liberally mixed with the more serious Scout training in first aid, knotting, model bridge-building, signalling (morse and semaphore), and mapping, finishing at 9 o’clock with the impressive closing ceremony of Scouts —Taps and the lowering of the Union Jack.