GUIDE AND SCOUT NEWS FROM ENGLAND
Guides of the 4th Tollington (North London) Company made £ IS at a Jumble Sale, and £ 10 has been sent toward the cost of a recreation hut for the B.E.F. To help the Gift Week Scheme a Guide visited her local police station every day for a week and cleaned the sergeant’s boots. Tavistock Scouts found deeds of local premises among their wastepaper collection the other day; the deeds bore the signature and seal of a former Duke of Bedford and were of historical value. ‘ Since 1910, when the Handbook,of the Boy Scouts of America was first published, , more than six million copies have been sold; only th& Bible has exceeded its sale in the United States. . Scouts of Picton, Nova Scotia, have been presented with the flagpole from which the Royal Standard flew during the visit of the King and Queen last year. ,
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13137, 11 September 1940, Page 2
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