DUKE’S AWARD SETS A CHALLENGE
(Ntw Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Dec. 12. “The Duke of Edinburgh's award seis certain standards of achievement, both physical and mental, for boys, and girls, to reach. It is a challenge to them to find out just how much they can do and to discover and develop their own quslitiies. Often they astonish themselves,” said the Governor-General (Sir Bernard Fergusson) in a broadcast on the setting up of the award scheme in New Zealand. Sir Bernard Fergusson said the awato scheme was not just another youth organisation snd far from being in competition with such organisations it had a great deal to offer to them, as well as to individual boys and girls outside them. “This award organisation is not only prepared, but eager to put its experience and its maich'inery and its sets of standards at the disposal of all youth organisations . . . or any organisation which has dealing with young people,” Sir Bernard Fergusson said.
He said there were three awards, bronze, silver and
goid, each of which would be won with a certain sisndard at personal attainment. 'Td like to make it clear that there is no competitive element in this. The person who enters it is up against standards only," Sir Bernard Fergusson said. At the same time the aim was to make him feel he was capable of great things, and capable of contributing to the future of New Zealand, the Commanweal'jh and the
world. “The ultimate idea behind it all is not that the successful competitor should be saitisfied with what he has achieved, but that for the rest of his life he should go on trying to stretch himself, and seeking to achieve the highest standard possible in whatever he put his hand to.”
Sir Bernard Fergusson said the scheme had been going in Britain for some years.. “We in New Zeeland Started our plans for it only about a year ago. We wanted to be quite sure that we were on the right lines before launching forth. We are now ready.”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30313, 13 December 1963, Page 13
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