Scout Notes

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 20, 15 October 1941, Page 5

Scout Notes

(By "Tuakana.*') Campfires. ' Parents' Campflre Night, St. Augustine's Scout Hall, Petone, Saturday, October 18th. The \ succeeding canipflre will be at Ist Lower Hutt Scout Hall on November Ist. Will£ all Scouts and posing! to attend the district campfire at Eastbourne on November 15 th, please hand their names in to the campflre team not later than November Ist. Before bus transport' can be arranged we need to know how many are going. The fare will probably be 1/- return '(depending on the number going). It is proposed to leave Lower Hutt at 6.45 p.m., call at Petone, .and arrive at Eastbourne at 7.15. Buses will leave Eastbourne Gymnasium just after D.30 p.m. at the conclusion of the campflre. Tramps and Camps. Are * your permits all in for Labour Day Camp? This week-end is nearly always yone day wet, one day line, one day—well, just ordinary." The ground is still cold, and the bush is very wet this year, so see that raincoats and groundsheets aue in good' order before you leave home. I do not known if any literature of the English Federation of Rambling Clubs is available in New Zealand. It is iirst-class material. Out late Chief was extremely proud of his position as a vice-president of the federation, whose motto is "Good Camping." Their activities are fourfold.. First, to promote the widest possible interest in camping and tramping. Second, to stimulate interest ,in local history and beauty spots. Third, to combat vandalism and protect the natural beauties of the countryside. Fourth, to strengthen the bonds of fellowship among all campers by subscription to the ideal implied in their motto. * Who'll Come a-Roving With Me? At the age of 17 or 18 the average boy is just wa*king to the realisation of a world beyond his own circle of family and friends. At work, at college, or just entering University, his contacts with life are changing, and sayings and doings of older people impress him with peculiar fo'ree by their novelty and perhaps, strangeness. There is a thrilling passage in Stewart Edward White's book, "The Forest," describing how rapids are shot in the frail Indian canoes. Through a channel boiling with foam, where black rock teeth ar.e set 011 either hand, tlie expert follows the heaped range winding through the welter, along the line where the deepest water flows, to calmer reaches beyond. The youth who accepts and practices the Hover ideal will easily follow the right channel to manhood, able to ignore evil distractions and to overcome difficulties by the strength of his faith. Rovers are a Brotherhood of the Open-air and Service, elder brothers of our Scouts. They are outyoungest citizens. We need many thousands of them in Ahis laijd. "TUAKANA."