SCOUT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21512, 29 June 1935, Page 10

SCOUT NOTES

[ISSUED FROM METRO "OLITAN HEADQUARTERS.] District Training Course Scout officers and troop leaders in the No. 4 CHristchurch d.strict are invited to attend a training course _to be held in the St. Saviour's Parish Hall, Sydenham, commencing on Saturday evening next. The course wilt continue to be held on the succeeding Saturday evenings for a period of eight weeks. District Scoutmaster E. Culverhouse will be in charge ot tne training, and all officers will receive a copy of training syllabus from him in the near future. _ .„ Officers from other districts will be welcomed provided the consent of the respective district commissioners is obtained. . District Field Day A report has been received from No 4 district that it is intended to hold a field day some time m Octobei. Should this venture prove successful, it is intended u> make it an annual affair. Further details will appear in this column at a later date. Badge Examinations

Commissioner F. Fever notified his s district committee at a recent meet- ; ing that in future candidates for lirstclass badge" examinations,, who were ; unsuccessful in the "estimation would be required only to preseiu > themselves for re-nxamination in the ; particular section of that test in whicn i they have failed. | Group Notts | The need of a suitable room for | court of honour meetings, etc., fox j the Phillipstown S~out Troop has j now been met by obtaining the use of an old stable. A working party wrs organised and willing hands soon | made the building presentable and ; fit for occupation. A new floor was < put down and the walls were painted. ; Members of the troop are very grate- , ful to the following persons who as- j •jilted in various ways:--Mrs Whyman, . Mrs Rich, Miss Rich, Messrs Rogers, ♦ Linton, and Jory. i Wolf Cub Notes Wolf Cub Barry Crisp of the first' Lytteiton pack, has passed his second ; star, The second "rock council" will be | held, at St. Andrew's on Wednesday « evening next, at 7 oclocit. The fourth, j fifth and sixth bites of the handbook ) will'be studied. New cub masters will : also oe invested. i Addition Hovers i Following on a series of theoretical j talks on "visual art," the rovers have ; now applied themselves to the practi- > cal work in "line cutting." i Tracking signs, scout emblems, and jungle animals lend themselves to this ; type of work, all ot which helps i great deal to give true atmosphere , to cubbing and scou'ing. Tne next ; "lino" night is Tuesday next. _ I "Ra" paid a visit to St. Peter's j Scout Troop recently and took them ( in a special play acting "sing song evening, using Kipling's "Kim" a.; tne main items. Kadio Talk on Scouting "The world numbers many_ millions • of scouts and guides, and their organ- I isation is one of the great international ; brotherhoods upon which the luturo : peace and prosperity of us all in no : small measure depends." 'iiiis statement was taken from a rauio talk delivered in January last j by Dr. G. S. Arundalc, M.A., Lh.B. , (Cantab.). F.R.H.S., vice-president of: the provincial council of the Boy i Scout Association in the Madras Presi- j dency, and world president of the i Theosophical Society. Dr. Arun- , dale was .for many years a: scoutmaster in India, and will ; be remembered by most scouts in . New Zealand when he toured the Do- . minion two or three years ago. In re- j ferring to the well-being of India, Dr. j Arundalc said she must have good < citizens —boys and girls, men and ' women; for citizenship began at birth, ; first with rights, but soon with duties, j The scout arid guide movements ex- : isced, he said, to produce good citi- j zens,' to evoke in every youth those , principles which constitute good citizenship. These were not military movements. They were not sectarian | movements. They wore not political i move' ients, but they were civic j movements which helped to make ( young people good citizens of themselves, good citizen: of their fami- ! lies, good citizens of their youths, good | citizens of thHr surroundings—towns J and cities—good citizens of their coun- i tries, and of the world. ! Lo ' Baden-Powell had in a most | wonderful wav strengtneaed the forces | which work for righteousness in the j world, said Dr. Arundale. He had j helped to make nations more truly | national and the world more truly a | universal brotherhood.