Raupo District Scouts’ Display Opened

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30528, 25 August 1964, Page 16

Raupo District Scouts’ Display Opened

An extensive and wellarranged display, illustrating all, the major aspects of scouting, was officially opened at the Woolston School by the Mayor (Mr G. Manning) last evening. Mr Manning congratulated the Raupo district scouts on their work in organising the display, ajid commended the principles and aims of the movement. Mr N. E. Kirk, M.P., patron of the Raupo District Association, spoke of the importance of the movement in training young people for leadership in the community.

The Deputy-Mayor (Mr H. P. Smith) and the area commissioner of Boy Scouts (Mr R. Moore) also attended the official opening. The cubs’ display appropriately features a stand eranhasising the scout’s duty to God and the Queen.

In the same room is a realistic jungle in which are arranged the characters from Kipling’s “Jungle Books,” which provide the basis for the cubs’ organisation. Among pack projects are detailed models of a Maori pa, farmyards, an airport, and a particularly elaborate Red Indian village. Tests by which a boy scout progresses from tenderfoot to first-class status are well represented. These range from knots of varied complexity to the requisites for unde; taking a 14-mi]e journey. Other boy scout exhibits include sturdy camp furniture and equioment made from wood lashed together with string. Types of bridges are shown among models of pioneering projects, as well as . an impressive, thatchroofed watch-tower, standing 6ft high. Spare-time activities, such as rock, coin, and stamp collecting, are shown in another room with a map indicating the world-wide links maintained by pen-friends in the movement. There are also sea scout, air scout, signals, and gang show exhibits in this room, a range of first-aid equipment, and an Imposing and solidly-constructed raft. Separate rooms are devoted.

too, to rover and venturer scout displays, showing the more advanced activities, such as mountaineering, tramping, and ski-ing, in which older scouts take part. The whole display took four months of preparation, and the result is attractive, absorbing, and often instructive. It will be open until August 29. Forty scouts from the Raupo district will also present a musical play, “We Live Forever,” at the Linwood High School Hall each evening from August 27 to 29.