Boy Scouts and Cubs

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 239, 27 September 1930, Page 9

Boy Scouts and Cubs

(By

“ARROWE.”)

SINGS, BOYS, SINGI Everyone's against you! Well, they won’t bo long; Nothing veers so quickly As a thoughtless throng! Don’t take any notice. But keep on along. Pull your belt up tighter And just sing thia song: Where there is a valley There’s a hill as well What will come to-morrow You can never tell. Life is rather dreary! Well, it might be worse! Some folks may bo looking In u. empty purse. To your dull condition Quite a spark you'll bring, If you find some laughter And you start to sing. Whoro there is a valley There’s a hill as well What will come to-morrow You can never tell. Clouds are round about you! Well, they’ll blow away! Darkness goes with morning, Night must leave for day. Rain can’t last for ever, Snow goes with the spring; Take your old umbrella And just gaily sing. Where there is a valley There’s a hill as welt What will come to-morrow You can never tell. A.M.F. 2nd HASTINGS TROOP. Last Friday we got back to our usual programme meeting. We starts with quoits, then had a message relay and again it was funny to see u messages that arrived at the finish compared with them as they started. We had an inter-patrol competition with an airgun which resulted in a win for the hloreporks. After that we got to work and went on with secondclass work until it was time to dismiss. “BIG SMOKE.” FRIMLEY TROOP. A good total of forty Scouts turned up at our meeting last Friday night, when we had another real good Scout night. Captain Dunlop, S.M., presided over us, also A.M. ’s Drummond and White. On arriving wo paraded and after saluting the flag were inspected. Following this, we went into our corners, where, under our Patrol-Leader, a great deal of work was done. A fair uumb'er of us have nearly passed their first-class test, some are hopeful of soon attaining their second-class badge, and some will soon receive their Tenderfoot. AU are working hard. During the night several received instruction in splicing ropes. Wo worked all night at our badges, in order to make up for the good time we had last Friday night. So when the time came we fell in, and aflcr Saluting the Flag, and repeating the Scout Promise, dismissed. BANUI. A SCOUT’S HEROISM. During a hurricane in the Bahamas some months ago a boy Scout named Gordon O’Brien belonging to the 2nd Bahamas Troop swan out to a steamship with a life line after the rescuing boats had been overtumed and hurled back to shore. When the life-line had been made fast, O’Brien, with assistance, pulled an open boat along the lino, and so landed the whole of the passengers—twelve women and children. The bronze cross, the. high est award of the Boy Scouts’ Association, was awarded to O’Brien. CHANGE IN A LIFETIME. When I think of the changes that have come in my lifetime it seems to me that the conscience of the community has developed very greatly. There is a community conscience now which feels a responsibility for poverty, weakness, and misfortune, and does not take it as much a matter of course as our predecessors did; which makes real efforts to remedy it. The conscience of the community of civilised nations is more alert, more sympathetic, more merciful than ever. That is evidence of progress. —Lord Grey, of Fallodon.