BOY SCOUTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 277, 22 November 1934, Page 9

BOY SCOUTS.

ADVENTUROUS LIVING

LORD BLEDISLOE'S APPEAL

CATHOLIC TROOPS' CONTROL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednseday. In an address at the annual meeting of the council of the Boy Scouts' Association which opened to-day, the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, deprecated those who advised youth to-day to live dangerously by way apparently of an expression of revolt against undue restraint which might hamper selfexpression or the due development of genius. Surely those associated with the scout movement, while deprecating undue restraint, said his Excellency, would be more inclined, instead of giving advice to live dangerously, to say to live adventurously. In other words, to exercise a due amount of ambition, enterprise and resourcefulness and make their life as full as possible "within the limits of self-restraint, self-discipline and adherence to the foundation principles upon which all rectitude was built. lie rejoiced that the scout movement was firm in its adherence to the doctrine of faith.

Monscigneur Connolly said he was a little worried by an amendment in the riles by which the control of Catholic scouts had been handed to the St. Vincent de Paul Society as the most suitable body to control them, and then an amendment apparently preventing such an arrangement had been made.

The chairman, Mr. J. R. Kirk, said such an arrangement was definitely against the rules, and had been previously, but the St. Vincent de Paul Society's members could fill controlling positions in Catholic troops, and the same end would be achieved.