BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 12

BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

IMPERIAL POLICY ADOPTED. DECISION OF EXECUTIVE. DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS. (By Telegraph,—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. At a meeting of the Dominion executive of the Boy Scout movement it was decided "That the New Zealand Boy Scouts shall in future work under the Imperial policy, organisation and rules with such alterations as arc deemed necessary by the executive to suit the local conditions in New Zealand." In future districts will be organised and controlled by district commissioners with district committees where large centres have twenty or more groups. The commissioner in charge will be designated metropolitan commissioner. "BIG THING FOR MOVEMENT." AUCKLAND COMMISSIONER PLEASED. "The decision will give great satisfaction in every part of the Dominion," said Mr. W. J. Holdsworth, Metropolitan Scout Commissioner of the Auckland district, to-day. "It means a big thing in the development of the movement. The New Zealand regulations under which the movement has been working for the past two years have been strongly opposed by Seouters because they tended to make the movement a Dominion one rather than a unit in a world-wide movement." "By going back to the Imperial regulations it will make the New Zealand scout movement part of a world-wide organisation and will pave the way for a big development. It will enable us, when the Chief Scout arrives here next year, to have all our difliculties overcome and for us to receive the fullest benciit from the visit."