BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT
Sir,-In a recent talk we were given some up-to-date information about the famous Boy Scout movement. What I have to say about it goes back exactly 60 years. At that time there was a huge man, a first cousin of Baden Powell, who was a Church of England vicar in the East End of London, and who later became Bishop Powell in South Africa (Mashonaland). His then habit was to conduct a-crowd of lads every Saturday morning to a swimming bath at Stratford, and it was quite a common sight to see him helping the boys to learn to swim. What wasn’t a common sight was to see a crowd of boys trailing behind a huge figure dressed in full clerical array. It is my belief that it was this gentleman who lit the torch of the Boy Scout movement. In other words the original idea was planted in the mind of Baden Powell by the then unusual conduct of his vicar cousin. ;
J. STEWART
SMITH
(Otumoetai),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 5
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