UNDER WHOSE CONTROL?

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 88, 15 April 1910, Page 7

UNDER WHOSE CONTROL?

BOY SCOUTS ON* CADET DUTY. ARRANGEMENT~*ARRIVED AT. The Boy Scouts' organisation has been anxious to come to some arrangement with the authorities controlling th« junior crdets, wherehy the I mining undergone by tho. Boy Scouts might he recognised. After prolonged negotiations, certain clauses dealing with the matter were added to tho regulations for junior cadets issued by the Minister of Lducation. Whilst most of these additional regulations were satisfactory to the Boy Scout organisation, one or two clause* were capable of being interpreted as though the Boy Scout units which joined the junior cadets would thereafter no longer belong to the Boy Scout organisation. This morning, the commissioner and general secretary of the Boy Scouts of the North Island interviewed tho Minister of Education on the subject. The Hon. Mr. Fowld* said that he in nowise wished to restrict and control the work now beins carried on by the Boy Scout organisation, and that the clauses referred to merely ensured that when, in common with other junior cadets, tho Boy Scouts nnd their otneers aro engaged in work at official times and places, as cadets, they shall be solely under tho control of the Commandant of Cadets. This is fully recognised by the Boy Scout organisation. _ The position will now be that the Boy Scout organisation will continue to carry on its work as heretofore, with the addition that those units who join the Boy Scout branch of tho junior cadets will be governed bj the official regulations while the\ are engaged on any work provided for under th» Defence Act. Tho way is iww cleared for the complete co-ordination of the Boy Scouts with the junior cadets.