SCOUTS AND GUIDES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18506, 7 October 1925, Page 10

SCOUTS AND GUIDES.

ROTARY CLUB'S EFFORT. As the result of the campaign undertaken by the Rotary Club to raise funds for the Christchurch troops or' Bey ScoutS and for the Girl Guides, the sum of £2-~0 was handed to the representatives of each organisation at a club luncheon yesterday. Mr Norton Francis, who presided, anuouncd the results or the club's effort. The total collected was £-"74 fs ~d. Only £45 lis f»d had gone in expenses. It was proposed to hand over immediately £2!>o to each organisation. The executive and secretary were congratulated on the low expenses of the campaign. The balance-sheet was approved, and the club decided that the balance in baud, £26 os Sd, should be held for a few weeks, until the cluh received a few more donations which had been promised. That probably would bring the balance up to £4O, and each* organisation would get £ :20 of that. Mr Francis Thanked the club's members for their splendid support. It was hoped, when the campaign was opened, that every card issued would yield £lO. It so happened that now there was the sum of £590 in sight, and oO cards had been issued. The success would not have been so great had the public not been so generous and open-hearted. Votes of thanks were accorded to the special committee in charge of the appeal, to the secretary, Rotarian Deny* Hoare, to Rotarian J. I. Smaill, for broadcasting the appeal by wireless, to Rotarian W. J. Sniythe. the publicity agent, and to the president. It was not proposed to publish lists of'subscribers. The president handed over £2oo to Miss Bromlev Cocks, for the Girl Guides, and £230 to Mr R. F. W. Ashworth, for the Boy Scouts. Miss Cocks, the Guides' Commissioner, in returning thanks, said that the money could not have been better spent. The Guides were only recently establishd in Canterbury, but she anticipated that in less than ten years there would be 4 000 instead of 400 Guides in Canterbury. Mr Ashworth, Canterbury Boy Scout Commissioner, replied on behalf of the Boy Scouts. The problem of finance had paralysed the movement in Christchurch. He referred to thcitinc type of boy in New Zealand, and spoke of ideals of training for the future good of the Dominion. The Rotarians were the Boy Scouts' elder brothers—and they had. proved it by their graceful act. Mr L. M. Isitt, M.P., spoke highly in praiso of both Boy Scouts' and Girl Guides' work.