BOY SCOUT RALLY

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28543, 24 March 1958, Page 12

BOY SCOUT RALLY

' Competitions And Tests The ninth annual provincial Boy Scout rally, held at the Addington Show Ground* on Saturday, was attended by 933 scouts, cubs and officers, representing 63 Canterbury packs. This was an increase of more th;in 300 on last year. The district commissioner for the Raupo district (Mr D. Watson) said that Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books were the basis for cub training. They provided a

convenient framework on which to build training for such things as muscular co-ordination, neatness and other virtues. “The whole range of human emotions and characteristics are represented by the animals in these books,” he said. After inspection, the cubs, were called upon to take part in various games and each item was sprung on them as a surprise. Among the tests and events they performed was a jungle dance, a start test, kangaroo race and semaphore exercise.

The Woodend pack, formed only 12 months ago, won the inspection with a faultless perforrhance. scoring 100 points. The New Brighton No. 1 pack was second and the Rangiora Tui pack third. The scout section of the rally began with a mftrch past and continued with competitions in camp erecting, Morse signalling, semaphore tests, knotting and scaling walls. The teams competed for a Scout flag which had been taken over the South Pole by R. B. O’Neill, a former King’s Scout. It was awarded for the best performance in the march past, and for the

title of the Provincial Commissioner’s Troop. This is given to the troop which has the best record for the year’s activities. The rally was attended by the Dominion Commissioner of Scouting (Mr J. K. Agnew) and the Provincial Commissioner (Sir Joseph Ward).