BOY SCOUTS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 11

BOY SCOUTS

BRANCH AT UPPER HUTT.

Aii enthusiastic branch of the Boy Scout movement has recently been started m the Upper Hutt district, with Captain S. D. Rogers, M.C., as Scoutmaster, -the district is a very large one, extending from Silverstream to Mungaroa and Karapoti, Mr. P. M. Moran representing the lower end of the Valley with the office of acting-scoutmaster. A committee of twenty persons has been set up under the chairmanship of Mr. J. .0. Duff, and has already acquired a 4-roomed cottage standing in an quarter of an acre of ground, where the 25 or 30 boys belonging to the troop may meet and work. Already the boys have modeled a plan of the district, and the workshop, which has been provided finds many adherents among the youngsters. At present, social evenings are held on Mondays and Wednesdays and a lecture on Fridays, while Scout 'work is also carried out on Saturday afternoons.

Mr. J. A. Hazelwood, junior, is the secretary of the committee, and as the financial position of the troop is sound there is every prospect of a very enthusiastic and ablo band of boys bein" added to the list of active troops.