BOY SCOUTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1933, Page 4

BOY SCOUTS

LORD BLEDISLOE’S TRIBUTE

[PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, October 15

Sixty troops in Wellington district were represented at a Scout Demonstration for Lord Bledisloe, Chief Scout for the Dominion, in St. John’s Hall, on. Saturday afternoon. Lord Bledisloe presented Sir Alfred Robin, Wellington, Metropolitan Commissioner, with the- order of Hon. Silver Wolf, the most coveted distinction In the Scout brotherhood, and read a letter from Lord Baden-Powell conferring the honour. An inspiring, address on the ideals, possibilities, interest and example of the Boy Scout movement was given by Lord Bledisloe, who, above all, urged his hearers not to belong to the “Isn’t It Nice” brigade. He asked them not to do what other people did because it was fashionable, not to follow the crowd, but to create something. Unfortunately, the Great War had wiped out one-half of the bestfitted section of a generation, and had created a gap from which the whole world was suffering to-day. The Scouts of the last fifteen years and the Scouts of the next fifteen, were the one people to whom the world was looking to fill that gap. Unless that were done, civilisation would definitely go back in the next half century. His Excellency concluded his address by informing the gathering that he was going to write to Chief Scout Baden-Powell by the next mail, telling him’ that the movement in New Zealand, and particularly jn Wellington district, promised to be an influence on the future of the British Empire.