THE CHIEF SCOUT

Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 11

THE CHIEF SCOUT

ABJRIVAL AT AUCKLAND

VOCIFEROUS WELCOME

I (Ry Telegraph.—Piesa Association.) ' AUCKLAND, This Day. I As the R.M.S. Aorangi drew alongside the wharf this morning a- contingent of Boy Scouts raised their voices lin a haka of welcome to the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, who, leaning over the rail from the'boat deck, shouted his thanks. Lord BadenPowell is accompanied by his wife and two daughters, and Colonel Granville Walton, Commissioner for River Scouts in Britain. They left England on October 27, "and at each port inspected Scout and Guide rallies.

, The Chief Scout spoke in high praise of the international jamboree at Melbourne, and was particularly impressed by the brotherly spirit of the Australian boys in welcoming visitors from Oriental countries. He said there were in the world today 2,269,545 Scouts and 1,204,869 Guides. The movement began 27 years ago. The outstanding ' need in the upbringing of youth today was an adequate system of health culture.. Mussolini and '. Hitler had recognised that, but the training in Italy and' Germany was compulsory, and had a military aim. There were only -three countries without a Scouting movement, he'said —Germany, Italy, and Kussia. Scouting in Germany had been superseded by a militaristic youth movement. In Italy Mussolini-had adopted many of the teachings of. Scouting. Scouts were not recognised in'Russia'because they had to take a vow to God.

Lord Baden-Powell, who will be 78 this month, hopes for a quiet fishing holiday in the North Island after the welcoming functions in Auckland are over;