BOY SCOUTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 762, 10 March 1910, Page 3

BOY SCOUTS.

A meeting, of .scoutmasters, in ,charge of-, the?. Wellingto- Boy .Scouts -was;-held onV-Tucsday .at the Y.M".C.A\ rooms,." there being- , . .Messrs. H. N. ' Al'Leod (ohairm&nj, S.'M.']srar,,li C Clark, G. y. ..Neish,.. K.' ■ I;awson,' J... Styc'h/ J. ' J. .ElHsqn,- M. ,Kord, H. M,unro', fc P,: Colohensj; and , ■■ Lieutenant G. It Lpgaji. ; . '..'■; • . ,>'.-.- "". .The chaiTraan reported , that ;a forward movement'had-been commenced, at Karori and/j'a't Petone, • and it .'was hoped also thit"-a" troop di\ boy. scouts would bft organised''at. the"; Hutt:.in; the : course of .aifew.days.; Regarding, the recent 1 review, he,said^liat;' / alti(piiga'' , ,the)'.'rain';jma'de.'''it :necessa'ry'. ,'to^abandon' , the/ original 1 pTo-? gramme : mapped- out,-' and adopt entirely, 'new plans,' the. boy: scouts'.had been.com-. fprtaßreiu campi arid'Veceived valuable : instrufttipn. .. librd ■Kitchener, -.and 7 the pfficer.':.'in. command p£ : the , cadeti,.. had spoken, "appro.viisl.v of. the: , work done. At.any time,, the'hoys .had .been able to have a "piece" of -bread .and: hungry; :and their-meals werewell catered for. ~-.■.•.■•;"-■ ..:.V ■;<■'.).,. . •-.■ . ■ ; •■■■ . ' . i In order: that ; the ilocal' ; examinations, might be;brought.into:line with those of the other l districts of the Dominion, .it Tfas;.B|reeii that,., svfter, April ..1, , th« ;''sknH9r'd..a's".s.et; down" in the' second, edition, 'of: "Sopnting; , for Boy's";,sho,'uld : be fo.Howed:" It was explained that,:;:at'j>r.e"r9ent,_.boy_Bcoub. in 'tho. Welliagtoh'T^ls-. trict who. passed : as: first-class. Bcoute-'oiiij' reached ..a ■ standard; which enabled-boys iin :other -parts- 'to; -wear - ; second-class badges. , . '■, ,;v. '..' ~' ■•■■ ■-■.■'■■ . ■■■■■-, .. Scoutmaster; iColonew; in charge of the I Hoys'; Institute,- extended, an invitatioa to, all boy, scouts 'to .attend the. garden fete, of the. institute, to be : held at the Botanical Gardens', next "Saturday ■ afternijon. Hβ intimated that they; might ■j<jm -in the procession, leaving Arthur Street at 2 o'clock, and-that they would b? admitted.free.) He added that opporwould probably, be affor.ded (or the carrying ont of special scouting work. ; It-was a- meefingof the ' wecutiye: of the Boy,. Scouts movement would evening, -at 5 VclocV ■'