PIHAMA BOY SCOOTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 July 1935, Page 2

PIHAMA BOY SCOOTS

NEW TROOP FORMED. (From Our Own Correspondent). A meeting was held in the Pihama Hall on Monday to form a Boy Scout troop. The Rev. J. G. Wood (Opunake) presided and outlined the aims and objects l of the Scout movement to a large audience of parents and others •interested. It was unanimously decided to form a troop and the following officers w e' e appointed: Chairman, Mi" T. M. Guild ; committee, Messrs. A. Petty, G. Corkill and S. Cooke. Mesdapies Cooke, E. Harrop, E. Penfold and Miss ]*’. Harrop; secretary, Mr E. P. Riley. Mr W. IT. Haggett and Mr S'. Bell, secretary and Scoutmaster of the' Opunako troop respectively, were present. Mr Bell was elected Scoutmaster and Mr W. Allan and Mr R. Julian jnr., assistant scoutmasters. The election ol a Cubmaster was held over until the first meeting of the committee which was fixed for tlie first Monday in August. The troop intends to start with a social evening. * PERSONAL NOTES. Miss T. Riley, who has been spending a holiday with her parents at Pi-

hama, lias returned to Palmerston North to resume her duties on the nursing staff of Aoraugi private hospital. Mr and Mrs W. A. Sheafc and Mr and Mrs J. S. Tosland hare returned from the Farmers’ Union conference at Wellington. ■, ( . ' Miss P. Templeton, captain of the Pihama. Ladies’ Hockey Club, has been compelled through a leg injury to give up play for the time being. She will be much missed in the team. M-esdames J. A. Stevenson and W. R. Conaglen have returned from the provincial conference of the Plunkeb Society at Wanganui.