BOY SCOUTS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20987, 16 October 1933, Page 10

BOY SCOUTS

4S—POSSIBILITIES OF THE MOVEMENT ADDRESS BY LORD BLEDISLOE (I'KESS ASSOCIATION T£LEGE.'»M.) WELLINGTON, October 15. An inspiring address on the ideals, possibilities, interest, and example of the boy scout movement was given by the Chief Scout for New Zealand, Lord Bledisloe, at a scout rally on Saturday afternoon. Lord Bledisloe, above all, asked his hearers not to belong to the '-isn't it nice'' brigade. He asked them not to do what others did because it was fashionable, not to follow the crowd, but to create something. Unfortunately the Great War had wiped out one half of the best fitted section of a generation, and had created a gap from which the whole world was sufiering to-day. said Lord Bledisloe. Scouts of the last 15 years, and scouts of the next 15. were the one people to whom the world was looking to i";Jl that gap. Unless that was done, civilisation would definitely go back in the next halt' century. His Excellency concluded his address by informing the gathering that he was j;c;;ii? to write to the Chief Scout. Lord Baden Powell, by the next mail telling him that the movement in New Zealand, and particularly in the Wellington district, promised to be an influence on the future of the British Empire. SCOUT DEMONSTRATION IN WELLINGTON (I'iik.n.s association tei.kguam.i WELLINGTON, October Jo. Sixty troops in the Wellington district were represented at a scout demonstration for Lord Bledisloe, chief scout for the Dominion, in St. John's Hall, on Saturday afternoon. Lord Bledisloe presented Sir Alfred Robin, Wellington Metropolitan Commissioner, with the order of the honorary silver wolf, the most coveted distinction in the scout brotherhood, and read a letter from Lord Baden Powell, conferring the honour.