SCOUT NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 16, 30 December 1932, Page 11

SCOUT NOTES

(By “Friar Tuck.”)

Even a Cub and a Brownie are expected to be examples to other people in the matter of tidiness both by doing their best to keep the Pack Den tidy and by preventing litter on outings and at camp, rays the Chief Scout. Most people seem nos to mind very much where they throw their litter. Cigarette ends, bus tickets, orange

peel and bits of paper are left strewn around to mark the place where they have been. When Scouts and Cubs grow up we hope that there will no longer be people who throw these things about. They will take the trouble to put them into proper bins, or- take them home and burn them. It not only makes the streets look untidy, but also makes them dangerous owing to people slipping on banana skins and orange peel, and thereby very often breaking limbs. Dangerous too, because rotting fruit helps germs to grow which poison the air which people breathe. (The Chief says he once heard of a Club who . could not think of a good turn to do, but he saw a banana skin lying in a rubbish bin, safely out of the way, and he put it on the pave, ment so that, if another Scout came along, he would have, a chance of doing a good turn by removing it!) Cubs who live in the country don’t get such a chance of mopping up street paper, but they can do an equally use. ful work in their districts by up-root-ing thistles and other weeds which grow along the sides of the roads. It not only makes the place look neater, but it will also be a blessing to farmers. Thistles seed in such a way that the seed is carried miles by the wind and so if you stop the seeding you are doing good work. On the gates of a park in Scotland are these words:—

PLEASE REMEMBER. Banana skins and luncheon scraps, Orange peel and chocolate wraps, Broken bottles, torn rags, Kodak cases, paper bags, Cigarettes and matches spent, Cardboard plates and papers rent, Tins and suchlike odds and ends, Spoil this place for other friends, Dirt and papers in pretty places, Slam park gates in peoples’ faces. So Cubs and Scouts, too, be very careful not to be litter-louts. Don’t scatter toffee papers about the streets. Be proud of them and of your den so that a visitor will see that you are a good Pack by your tidiness and keep your camps tidy, too. CUB PREMIER PACK COMPETITION. WAI ITI PACK SCORE AN EASY WIN. The results of the Premier Pack competition held on the Show Grounds on Saturday, December 10, resulted in a win for the Wai-Iti Pack with 508 points out of a possible 679. Next came Waipukurau. 443, then St. Andrews (Port, Napier) 417, then Hastings, 402, followed by Havelock North, 3494. The following are the points for each section

Well done, Wai-Iti! Some of you will soon be going up to the Esk Troop, so with such fine reinforcements you should do great things. See if you cannot beat Congregational next year! It is also good to see that Waipukurau were rewarded for their keenness, it was a long way to come and you deserved your place. The best performance of all probably is St. Andrews’. They are the newest pack in Hawke’s Bay - . ROAD BENBE WHEN CYCLE HIKING. When cycling you should aim to be in camp by five o’clock, in bed by ten, up at seven and on the road by nine or nine-thirty. See how quickly you can get the camp pitched and try to beat your own time each day. If there are two fellows to one hike, tent, six Scouts should get up three tents in two min. utes, and have the evening meal “under way” in half an hour. Buy your grub in the village or town through which you pass last before you reach your camp and DON’T BUY TOO MUCH! The less you carry about with you the better. The evening meal is the meal of the day. An hour’s rest after the mid-day meal refreshes v ou an d breaks up the journey. Don’t forget that you can get quite a lot of food such as eggs, milk, butter and meat at farms, but don’t cadge. Pay for it. Drink water for your midday meal, not these fizzy-things that make you more thirsty, especially when you have four hours’ cycling before you 1 ROAD SENSE. Don’t straggle about all over the road, and never ride \ more than two abreast. Cycling in pairs, letting the two youngest lead the way and set the pace, is the best method. You are not out to break mileage records, and thirty or forty miles a day is quite enough for most boys. When passing through a town the safest method is single file with the Patrol Leader in the front and the second bringing up the rear. In this way every cyclist has nothing between Himself and the kerb and in a case of emergency he can easily get to safety I The P.L. should pass back signals for slowing up, turning, stopping, and so on. If all the rest repeat them there is no doubt in the minds of the riders as to what to do next and you will pass safely through the town however crowded it may be. When you go in pairs, don’t crowd up to the wheel of the men in front with an inch to spare as the cycling chibs do Leave a space the length of a cycle between each pair so that on the command “Single File!” the outside men can move forward into the spaces without any fuss. This

looks very efficient when done well, and gives a good impression of smartness. CAMPING NEWS. Some members of the 2nd Hastings Troop are going to camp at Weka Peninsular Scout Camp, at Rissington some time about New Year for a week or ten days. Esk Troop are camping at Puketitiri for nine days from Christmas Eve till the second of January. They will be having visitors’ day on New Year’s Day and all friends are invited. The Troop will be camped only a few yards from the bush up the Hukanui road. A SUNBURN PREVENTATIVE. Prevention is better than cure, and even more so in the case of sunburn. Here is a very simple and good mixture. Mix equal parts of Olivo oil and vinegar and shake them up till they go creamy. This will stop you burning and also takes out a bit of the sting if you are already burned.

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