SCOUT NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 104, 29 October 1925, Page 15

SCOUT NOTES

(By "Scoutcr.',')

,St. Mark's Troop has arranged to camp again at Paraparaumu this year. .Fourteen boys recently qualified for second-class and fifteen are now preparing for. first-class. ' Patrol' Loader Wills passed his handyman's test. It is not too soon to be thinking of camping, 'anil wise Scouts are aY ready preparing by studying budge subjects which will help-them in camp. Three which should hot be overlooked arc Handyman, Woodworker, and Cook. The Scout with such knowledge is , always useful in camp. , The formation of a, troop of Scouts at Johusonyille, iitfcirhcd to the -local Church of England, is likely to bo effected at once. A meeting to make- the .necessary ■arrangements will he held on Tuesday next,-when the Commissioner and.District Secretary will bo present. •

Kahvarra Troop'proposes to camp at Hukajiui, near Kketahuna, at Christmas time. The work oi: the troop is progressing -'well.

Tho sale :of tickets for the recent display evidently went well, but until all Scouts account for sales the final figures cannot bo arrived at.' To date three troops have paid in £3(j Is 6d. .... ,■';..

■St. .Thomas's Troop is about to launch a Cup Puck with Mr. L. F. Morris as Cub-master.

If sufficient local support is forthcoming a troop will shortly be started at Seatoun. A, trained scoutmaster aiid assistant are in sight. Badge examinations will be held'as follow:—Master-at-Arms , (Captain Duffy), V.M.C.A. Gym., Tuesday, 10th November; pathfinder (Mr. Lawson), The Den, Thursday, 12th November; clerk (Mr. Lawson), secretary's office. Tuesday, 17th November.

Other examinations will be notified next week. ■ ■ '. Communications for- this column should bo addressed to Scoutmaster C. Mcachcn, "Itkica," Thorndon quay. .