BOY SCOUTS' ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 18 May 1929, Page 23

BOY SCOUTS' ASSOCIATION.

DOMINION EXECUTIVE. A meeting of the Dominion Executive of the Boy Scouts' Association was held on Thursday. Present: The Dominion Chief Commissioner (Brigadier-General A. W. Andrew, in the chair), Deputy-Chief Commissioner (Colonel P. C. Fen wick), Lieut.Colonel P. B. Creswell, Rev. W. H. Orbell, Messrs H. Herbert Smith, \V. T. Charl& wood, C. D. Hardie, and H. S. J. Goodman, An apology was received from Mr G. W Bishop. A vote of sympathy with the relatives oi the late District Commissioner at Bulls, Sir James Wilson, was passed in silence. It was decided to accept the resignatioi of Major R. F. W. Ash worth. District Commissioner at Christchurcb; and that he bt thanked for past services. The resignation of Commissioner Ayling, of Central Taranaki, was accepted with regret, and it was decided that he be thanked for past services. . , ~ Mr D. E. Dredge, of Palmerston was appointed District Commissioner for tue Manawatu District. . . r ,„,^ rnl . Dr. Bowie, Commissioner .»* fi-borne reported that Scout actxvities ia were very much alive WOrK was being done by all tr of W esfcAn apology from Mr ® nterferl w ith the port, was received J or Scouts at Westinformed that any Sure breJh tould result in police proUken that The Marorj-f M^°" t J r 7 orm4tion B of » i he was Milton, and that a ; troop of Boy being called oy and reco ™"®? <i ll^ ,a bbe e eD o fornied at WsitoUra, 1 jurisdiction of the V The C uSS^ I Tor Natfve Aff«« wrote stat- • J that the Government could not see its do -anything in to , M The requested to j Jke a? inspection of all troops in the Ctristchurch district. and t»-ieport-* tb» j

I executive upon the constitution of their troop committees, roll and parade strength*, class badges held, officering, and finances. ! Consequent upon Commander Hall's re- £ commendation, Karl Jellicoe's Trident has • been' awarded to the Iron Duke Sea Scouts ( Company at Nelson, whilst the set of inter- ! national code signa] flags for the most pro- { ficient company in signalling wae awarded i to the Petone Company in Wellington. { It was decided to recommend Scout Krnast I Gordon Vallance, of the Alexandra Troop, J to the Chief Scout for an award in conj nexion with his rescuing a boy named 1 Symonds from drowning in the Coronation swimming baths on February Bth. A long service medal for five years service was awarded to Scoutmaster R. I Simpson, of Matamata. j Scoutmaster I. R- H. Cooksey, of tlie I Rissington Troop, Hawkc's Bav, was pro- , moted to bo Commissioner in Charge cf the | New Zealand Jamboreo Contingent for ibe English tour. „ . . , I The Dominion Chief Commissioner ana j general secretary were requested to proceed j to Wellington in connexion with final arrangements for the departure of the part? by the Tamaroa on June 9th. The >e* Zealand party, including officers and scouts, numbers 36. j