BOY SCOUTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 41, 27 November 1937, Page 2

BOY SCOUTS

VALUABLE TRAINING. PRAISE BY THE GOVERNOR. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 26. “I feel very strongly the importance of the movement and how essential it is in the training of our boys to become good citizens of the future,” said the Chfef Scout, the Governor-Gen-eral (Lord Galway) at the annual meeting of the Dominion ' Council of the Boy Scouts’ Association of New Zealand in Wellington to-day. There was no training so fine as scouting for developing attributes of good citizenship, self-discipline and sympathy with those in need of help, continued Lord Galway. He commended the suggestion that Scouts should be boys of the open air, boys of the sea, the hills and the countryside. Lord Galway welcomed the transfer of headquarters to Wellington, because it seemed to him essential, if the movement were to carry its full weight, that headquarters should be in the capital city. “I have had a letter from the World Chief Scout, Lord BadenPowell, in which he heartily concurs with me in this, and sends you his good wishes for success,” said Lord Galway. “We are passing from an old to a new order, moving, perhaps, to more strenuous times, but I feel that it is for the good of scouting, and that you can go forward with confidence and strength and with your feet on firm ground. I feel that as the value and worth of the movement becomes more widely recognised, you will find, that your difficulties will pass.” He had heard it suggested that the Government might be approached for financial assistance, but he considered that a movement such as scouting should be virile and able to stand on its own feet. He expressed confidence that the public would give ready support to those who had at heart the training. of the country’s youth in such a worthy cause. He personally (Would be delighted to do anything he could to encourage the movement, and promised that he would do his best to visit Scout camps in the Dominion.