BOY SCOUTS THE BEST WORKERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 12

BOY SCOUTS THE BEST WORKERS

Sir .Robert Baden-Powell writes to Ine Standard with easily pardonable pride, conveying the testimony of Messrs W. H. Smith and Son that their experience proves the Boy Scout training, to be "in every way an advantage to the junior members of the staff. ' The firm has deputed a member of the staff to the special duty of encouraging scouting among the 6000 boys employed. And, as further practical evidence of their opinion, Messrs omith' enclose £500 as a contribution to the fund now being raised for the endowment of the movement Sir .Robert Baden-Powell adds that donations to the fund are daily arriving from large business houses.