KARITANE APPEAL

Evening Post, Issue 119, 16 November 1925, Page 9

KARITANE APPEAL

THE BOY SCOUTS' EFFORT

SALE OF BONDS THIS WEEK.

The Boy Scouts of Wellington will be fully occupied in thr.ir spare time this week in selling Karitano Hospital appeal bonds, of which £5000 worth, in values of Is, 2s Od, us, 10s, and £1 have been issued.

The combined efforts of the Scouts, •whose vwork has been ctirofully organised ao as to bo of the best effect, has been warmly approved by those in charge of the appeal, and the friends of the Plunket movement generally. Sir Truby King, the organiser of the Plunket movement, has -written to the secretary of the Wellington Boy Scouts' Association as follows: — "Dear Sir, —Tho information that the Boy Scouts of Wellington intend to take an active part in ensuring the provision of the Karitane Home is more gratifying to the Plunket Society and myself than we can possibly express. , "During the many years that I have been connected with this' work, we have had most generous help and encouragement from. earnest men and women all over the Dominion, but this is the only instance in which the boys of the community have come' forward, to help us in what we are convinced will prove, in the long run, the most far-reaching and patriotic of all forms of community work. "The most urgent need of our country at the present time is to make sure that its young manhood (and womanhood) would not reveal 50 per cent, of comparative weaklings if a test were applied in the future, as was done in the Great War, but would give young New Zealanders tho proud distinction of being proved quite unmatched in the whole world as regards health, strength, and all-round fitness and capability. ,"I understand the aim of the Boy Scouts is to collect enough money to put up a 'Boy Scouts' Ward' in our new Karitano Home—or 'College of Maternal and Juvenile Efficiency./ We naturally wish them every possible success in their effort. Personally, as general president of the Plunket Society, I wish to thank them most heartily for coming forward in the nick of time so as to enable us to make a start with the buildings early in the New Year. They may rest assured that the Boy Scouts of the future will be proud of the tangible evidence at the Karitane Home of the eminently practical,-and patriotic work done by their predecessors in Wellington at the close of 1825."

Dr. W. E. Herbert has written the following letter to the scoutmasters: "Dear Scoutmasters, —As one who has always been interested in health matters, and particularly in the welfare of the Plunket Society, I have learned with the greatest satisfaction of the decision of the Boy Sctfuts to help us in our appeal for a Karitahe Home.

"Wellington ia the only city in New Zealand that has not cuch a home, and the thought that the' boys of "Wellington intend to try and make good what we, their elders, have,., neglected to do in the past,: appeals to me as a very fine and noble example; "Best assured that you can help no finer organisation.; I wish you the best of luck, and would offer you' my sincere thanks for taking this splendid lead." ;,