SCOUT NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 23 March 1923, Page 10

SCOUT NEWS.

(By PATHFINDER.) The St. Barnabas Troop, with a roll of 40 scouts, are doing good work. They have been very fortunate in securing the services of Mr. \V. Moore, formerly of Hamilton, as scoutmaster. Mr. Moore is taking a very keen interest in the troop, anil is busy preparing a squad in nuarterstafT for the coming rally. Last Friday evening was devoted to games, there being 33 scouts and IT cubs on parade; a most enjoyable time was spent. This troop is working strictly on the patrol svistem. there being no doubt as to its success. There was 11 good muster present at last Saturday's rehearsal. j The senior members of the Orey Lynn ! Troop met in their new den last Saturday i evening. Tbe evening was devoted to iec- i ttirettes by the scouts on different subjects. ' including scout law, first aid. knots, national economy, administration of justice, and local government. Kach subject was fully discussed find proved of great interest. On Saturday afternoon the lire-tie;hting traiv. were busy preparing for their stunt on May jth. j Ponsonby held a most successful parade on Monday evening. There was a good done. Part of the evening war. devoted h> instruction in square lashing for the May rally, the other part was taken up by patrol instruction, and practice of the Benson- f yamu chorus and baka. i A meeting of members of all troop com- ■ mlttees has been called for next Thursday evening at headquarters at T.: J ,n p.m. Mat tens. ■if interest to troop committees and scout- i ing generally will be discussed.

usual b:.st Friday evening; there was an excellent attendance, there not being o:>" ' absentee. The evening was devoted to j first aid, signalling, scout law. tenderfoot j work, and practice of tbe Keugonyama j chorus and hakfl. Next Friday evening is ! to he devoted entirely to pumps, to be fol- i lowed on Saturday by a cricket match -with ] the Shacklelon Troop at Victoria Park at | LM.'i p.m. On Saturday fifty-five uiPinhent • were present at the rehearsal for the rally ! and on Sunday mornlnp 40 boys attended ' at ihn first church parade of the Gordon Troop at Arch Hill. A rehearsal for the May Rally was held on the (.'rounds of the St. Stephen's Maori 1 College ~n Saturday afternoon. The alien-I dance of Scout* was not as pood as it mlpht ' have been, thouch all troops In the immediate district were represented, with the ■ exception of Devonport and St. Peters One- ! huns-a. Twenty-tbree troops sent representatives, and there were 2SO individual officers and scouts on parade. If scontd realised the importance of bcinc tborou"hly prepared for this rally. Tathfinder is sure that every available scout in Auckland would make it a point of honour to turn j out to the practice parades for the Hally. I There arc between seven and cteht hundred scout.* on the rolls, yet we find less than 1 one half of these are ready to do their part I to help on (hose who arc doln X their l.pst for them. Notwithstanding the small turn- i out. ffooil practice was ]mt j n Tlle pj,.,,...,, I and Dominion Haka was done very fuisfjn- I torily, but the (treat Eenponyamn' chorus needs lunch practice bnf orP it can I>p wM to ije well done. The voices do not blend ami of -if/o hoys thp volume of sound was I ho "e?i th" 'b lT ml "' ll - t hay " hPen - uls ' acoiitmaf/ers will practice hard soThatYhe- ' will be able to make their voices en the I d ~ Domain S r ""m'- I'm SWc it ~a n I The first church parade of the Gordon Troop was held Inst Sunday at St Pet""" ' Frcshyterian Church. Arch Hill «r,,nt ! master Itaffan and his boys were present in rXh.Sf r^ a °^ rt Lnf? n i snow the brotherly feeling anions S, outs ! The Rev t. Hallway conducted the service 1 and cave a verj" One address on (he sub- i J «'.m'A < " I " eon X success with a small hard MidbniteT aS!,iDS, ,hP SrCat amiea cf the I St. David's Troop are very busy icettlns ready for the rally. They *rp prenarin- a 1 display of ambulance and .first Aid work ! under the ch-irse of their instructor. Mr. E. Howes, of the St. John Ambulance Bti- ' gadc. "■ * J The Holy SepuTclirc Troop, under Scoutmaster r. Hyde, met as usual last Thursday evemnp. There was- a good muster anr! some solid practice was put iv nt first and I speond-clnss work, lipsides the Keneonyami chorus and baka. A start is to be made ' wiiii mis v.ff-k -iili pr:'. tice in brid"o • building for the Jlay rally. Members "if ■ the troop paraded for rehearsal i-i,i c alnr . i day afernoon. " j Dr. J. J, Van Ger I>eeuw, Scmrt Tom missioner for South Holland, has returned to Auckland after a most sur%essfu] oa'iinirs expedition in different the. North Island, ne states that he was well received by Scout friends iji other parts of N"»w Zealand, and will carry home with him i nappy memories of bis short visit to New Zealand. Dr. .1. ,r. Van der I.eeuw is leav- I Ine for Australia on Friday. The Takapuna. Hobsonville Kohimnrama St. Heller's, and Papatoetoc Troops, showed n particularly fine example to the City ' Troops, as they all turned out in stronji force last Saturday, notwithstanding the distance and inconvenience to which they were put. It seems as if there were too many eounter-.ittlractions which Make mai.y of the city scouts slack iir their inior.-ac in the honour of their troop. Many scmii not to have found the spirit of '•esprit ec corps" which .-hould be felt by all members of Scout Troops. I We regret to learn from their Scout- I master that the St. Aldan's Troop have I neon compelled to withdraw from making sin individual display of Scout woi-k at the I rally. Mr. Kay says' that owing -' '-regular! attendance and lack of keent t. : .. j B | no hope of the troop making e«■ ■•■ "*-' / display District Scoutmaster A. .T. V« . . a visit of inspection to the Kitchener" Troop ' Inst Friday evening. He reports tint although the muster was not a larce one | the work of the evening was exceptionally i well done, and that the boys are taking a very keen interest In their particular d;s. i play for the rally. Mr Laurie is tinding the boys of the! Papatoetoe Orphanage Troop very keen and; hopes soon to get along; with "his scheme i for a Morse signalling chain, between his rroop and the town troops, by menus of' lamps via Mancere Hill. Pathfinder was! glad to see such an excellent parade last I Saturday at the rehearsal The Calliope Sea Scouts took part in the' }»>ietian Carnival at the Calliope Dork "a Monday evening-. They formed a consider able rart of King Neptune's "oii?| ! £ : his bodyguard and boats crew \sslstant ' Scoutmaster I. Tarr "Wok the par.t of Neptune, while Scoutmaster K. A Woods tools thp part of Queen Amphitrile Thp crtl-iss drill squad of this troop have boen pu'tiiiIn regular nightly prortlce.