Scout Notes

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 22, 29 October 1941, Page 5

Scout Notes

e (By "Tuakana.") Campflresi. Our next is on Saturday, Ist November, Ist Lower Hutt Scout Hall, at 7.30 p.m. The campflre team would Jlke to see more Scouts present. Roll hp, and give them some encouragement in the work they are doing for your benefit. Please remember to hand your name in for the East HsvrboUr visit on the 15th. Special bus (or buses) will leave Lower Hutt at (>.45 p.m., Petone 7 p.m. Scout Sports Day. The Scout 'Swimming Sports have always been a highly, successful annual event. In February we shall try a Sports Day. The programme will be made up of plain athletic events with some highly interesting Scout competitions. The subcommittee will be Bending out the list of events at an early date, to give troops plenty of time to select teams and train them for the competitions. Old Scouts. All old Scouts, ex-Cubs, ex-Scouts, ex-Rovers, ex-Scouters should feel they still have some possession in Scouting, that they still belong to a Brotherhood which knows no bounds of class, creed, race or age. The way is open for them to maintain their interest in Scouting, and their help and moral support will be welcomed thankfully. We have seen in our own time how the whole life of a nation may be directed, for good or evil, by a small, determined, devoted minority. Therein lies a challenge. A promise once nijxde requires' fulfilment. In the softness, indiscipline, selfishness and corruption plainly seen about us are the forces breaking up our national life. In the Scout Law and Promise there is the plan for a better way of livinr It is easy to condemn evil, hard t° build up good, but the challenge v there for men of faith and character to accept. Part of the Hoy Scout Association is the old Scout Branch for the benefit of older men who wish to be in more or less active association with the Movement. In our own district are many hundreds of men who, as boys, were Scouts. There is a debt to pay, a promise to keep and a vision to follow. Twenty-four Slcps. The distance from recruit to First Class Scout is 21 steps. Take (> and you are a Tenderfoot. Take nine more, you are a Second Class Scout. Nine more and another First Class Badge appears in your Troop. A sensible man climbs a ladder one step at a time. Try it out in your Scout work—one step at a time. Kleirie Middi'len. Small Means. Gi'ote Itesultaten. Great Results. So said the Dutch Scouts in 1937 when tliey prepared for the sth World Jamboree. There was little to be had, but they made the most of it. The result was a wonderful climax to 30 years of Scout history. Despite war and conquest, the spirit of 1937 lives on. Scouting in all its aspects is governed by simplicity and commonsense. The Scout's own stave, cut and carved by himself, is more precious to him than any presentation ebony—and more useful. The joy of it all is doing tilings for yourself. Campers and trampers know the feeling well. The bed made on fern or manuka, the meal cooked on the glowing wood fire, the bridge across the stream, the little gadgets devised for the tent and the camp kitchen are the things the Scout lias done for himself, and in his heart is the thrill of self-reliant pride. Labour Week-end—A Memory. There is so little time to leave The busy world that rushes past our door; To feel the old unchanging things, Our ceiling Heaven, and the grass our floor. There is so little time to spend Away from all the worry and the care, To learn the lessons of the out-of-doors And test the brotherhood in which we share. There is so little time to fill Our mind with store to last another year, To stock our hearts with comradeship afresh, Yet all our opportunities were there! —"TUAKANA."