SCOUT’S UNIFORM
EX-OFFICER’S OFFENCE.
(Special to ‘‘Star.”)
AUCKLAND, May 11.
An unusual case was heard in the Police Court, yesterday, when Douglas John McFarland, ex-Boy Scoutmaster was summoned on a charge of having unlawfully worn a Scout’s uniform.
McFarland was a Scoutmaster once, out his warrant as an officer of tlie Association was cancelled. However, he still wore the uniform. Defendant had been warned not to appear in uniform,- but ignored the Warning. There had been so much trouble about the matter, that the police were eventually informed and the prosecution brought. The Act forbade anyone wearing a uniform anything like the Scout’s suit.
Admitting that he had worn the uniform after the warrant was recalled, McFarland stated he had taken off the Scoutmaster’s badge. He had been asked by a minister and committee at New .Lynn to look after a troop of boys there. This he had done, and did not think he was committing an offence in wearing the uniform. The Assistant Commander of the Auckland Boy Scouts’ Association, said that no one but the authorities had the right to say who should wear the uniforms.
Warning the defendant against wearing the uniform, Magistrate Hunt imposed a fine of £l.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1929, Page 7
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