SCOUT NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 275, 3 November 1933, Page 14

SCOUT NOTES

(By “Friar Tuck.

COMMISSIONER’S OUTLOOK. I was so glad to see so many Scouts and Scooters from this district down at the Palmerston Rally on Labour Day. Such visits establish good feeling between districts, and 1 am sure we all learnt a lot. Palmerston is to be congratulated upon the good show the boys put up. 1 feel it is time we put on something of the sort in this district to let the public see what our boys can do. If we do, it will mean hard practising for months and every Scout and Scouter will have to put his back into it. I am not going to describe the Rally, as I think others who were there will do so, but i do want to remark on the importance of marching and smart carriage in the eyes of the public. As I watched the mach past I could see the marked difference between troops. Some walked past, some slouched past, and others went past in step and with a swing. I must say that the latter impressed the public most and seemed to carry the air of pride that all Scouts should have. Our handicraft display was a great success, only we shall have to get a bigger hall next year. The work did you all credit. The Cub section was splendid and I was very glad to see more Packs entered and the work much improved. We were all sorry that the Hereworth Troop were ■nable to put in a display as they generally run very close to first place. I hope they will be in next year. The little entertainment during the evening was your own show and I hope the efforts of those who gave it will encourage others to come forward next year so that we may make it better still. The Cubmasters’ training course starts on Wednesday and then comes the boxing contest at Hastings. I hope the Troop “bruisers” are getting ready. Then comes the “Baron Memorial” contest for premier Troop. I hope all Troops will enter for that. I-ater we have the swimming contest. Havelock North have had that shield long enough. They have very nice baths, but it is time we went somewhere else.—Cheerio, “LITTLEJOHN.” THE HANDICRAFT EXHIBITION. A GREAT SUCCESS. Tne annual Scout and Cub Handicraft Exhibition was a great success, the hall in the evening being full to •verflowing. The handicrafts themselves were many and varied, and on the whole it was a better show than last year, and there were more Troops exhibiting. However, there was little doubt which Troop was the winner. The Congregational Troop again won the bronze statuette for the best show of industry. They had 100 per cent, working, and the articles were well made and useful. The most outstanding exhibit of the whole exhibition was made by one of these boys. It was an electric reading lamp made out of the ball of an old ball-cock, one half of the copper ball being used as the shade and the other as the stand. Their knitting, too, was .very well done. Second came Frimley with some very Well finished work, and third was Second Hastings Troop. Another Troop which had some very good work, but mostly of the one kind, was Greendale. They had specialised in knives, and made them themselves out of k old pieces of steel, such as chaffcutter blades, also a hatchet made from the same was a quite useful and well-made article.

The Cub section showed great improvement on last year, the work being of a much better quality. This was won by the Congregational Pack. Second came St. Andrew’s and Wai Iti, equal, and next Hastings. The Wai Iti Pack deserve special mention, as their wood work was by far the neatest in the whole exhibition. It consisted of simple yet well finished articles, such as bread boards, pot stands, wooden spoons, fern stands, etc. We have to thank Messrs Oldham and Williams for their services as Judges. The Scout Exhibition has now been going for four years. In 1930 it was won by Congregational Troop, in 1931 by Hereworth School Troop, in 1932 by Congregational, with Hereworth a close second, and this year Congregational have had little trouble in retaining it. The Cubs’ section has been going for only two years, and was won last year by the Hereworth Pack. COOKING COMPETITION. MORE ENTRIES THIS YEAR. The cooking competition showed more entries this year, and the exhibits—well, most of them were eaten for supper and the visitors paid 3d for them and did not growl I The following are the results for the Scout section: Fruit cake, Henderson Esk Troop 1; sponge cake, no entry; acmes, Fergus son, Havelock North Troop 1, Bickerstaff Congregation 2; rock cakes, no entry, damper, Bligh. Havelock North Troop 1. Scooters’ section: Fruit cake, CubBiaster Bickerstaff 1, Assistant S.M. Absolom 2; sponge cake, Cubmaster Bickerstaff 1, Assistant Scoutmaster

Absolom and Scoutmaster Chapman (equal) 2; stones, Bickerstaff 1, Absolom 2; rock cakes, Bickerstaff 1, Commissioner Cooksey 2; damper, Comi missioner Cooksey. Mrs Williams acted as judge. RISSINGTON FARM TRAINING TROOP. A CHANCE FOR JOBS. ■ At the show and since then there l have been no less than eight applicai tions for boys, most of them by farmers i wanting a boy who can milk. As there i are no boys coming to tho troop to learn we are unable to fill these posiI tioas and the farmers have had to go I elsewhere. The Farm Troop is here for your convenience, not for fun, so if you want a job como and learn. Six weeks will | make you a fair milker and odd job i boy, and it will cost you only £3 and | it is money well spent if it gets you a j job, as it probably will