PROVINCIAL BADGE SCHEME

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24591, 13 June 1945, Page 5

PROVINCIAL BADGE SCHEME

APPROVAL BY COUNCIL OF SPORT Approval was given at the quarterly meeting of the Canterbury Council of Sport to a draft of the provincial badge scheme, originally suggested to the council by K. A. Muff, for the promotion of physical fitness and qualities of citizenship among young people. The completion of details of the scheme was left to the executive. Outlining the scheme, the secretary (Miss Doreen Brown) said it was not proposed to set up another youth organisation, but to secure the co-operation wherever possible of such existing organisations. She read a pamphlet which it was proposed to distribute to boys and girls, setting out particulars of the requirements of the scheme and its aims and objects. Candidates for badges would be required to participate regularly in winter and summer sports/to have an approved hobby, and to prove that- they were rendering some form, of community service. There would be three badges, graded according to age groups, and a panel of judges would be set up to consider the claims of any candidate to the award of a badge. Miss Brown said that at the annual conference of the New Zealand Council of Sport, which she attended as a delegate from Canterbury, the scheme had received enthusiastic support During a discussion which followed, members of the council suggested the holding of a special children's! meeting to explain the scheme to them. Some opposition was expressed to the inclusion of hobbies and community service in the scheme, on the grounds that lit would be difficult to determine [standards of achievement.