BOY SCOUTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1909, Page 2

BOY SCOUTS.

The si out patiols of ;t number of city and suburban troops were well represented on Saturday at Lyell Bay. A bii&c camp was established on a' knoll near the city boundary. lleie the Brooklyn putiols furnished the defending and observing force, and its mem*bers bu.sied themselves in Vrerting a. glass hut-shelter, and keeping a look-out on the surrounding country, which was supposed to be infested with bunds of hostile scouts from Wellington and lloseneath. A special signalling and search expedition was entrusted to the Tuatara troop, who, besides engaging in military scouting, searched for remains of moa egg-shells, of which they found some fifty fragments. The attack was frustrated in the main, the chief ftcout (Dr. MnkgLll) alone succeeding in piercing the litifcß. The repulse practically ended the day'fl opeiations. The scouts Ihen disbanded. A recording secretary has been appointed in connection with the movement in Wellington, and a meeting will . be held at the V.M.C.A. Rooms on Wednesday next.

Timant fishermen now go a long way out to sea in quest of tish- — between 20 and 30 mile*.. II takes them between two -and three liouip under fleam with thoir launches to leach the grounds.. At one time tli-ey uffd to go out only' throe or four miies. The fishermen s-ay fhab .the erection of a coot storage chamber would help the fishing industry greatly.