SCOUT TALK.

Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1913, Page 3

SCOUT TALK.

By " Spoor."

Tiie Gore Scouts met 9a Friday even- j ing, the attendance being very satisfactory. About 16 Scouts have alreadj rjaid 6s each to attend the Ivaka Point camp and they met on Monday evening to make arrangements regarding provisions, etc. Each Scout must take for his own use three blankets, waterproof sheet, change of clothing, toothbrush, soap, towel, bathing trunks, boot polish and a brush, nailbrush, knife, spoon, fork, plate and pannikin, iho best way to roll the kit is to roll everything inside the blankets, with the waterproof sheet outside and correctly labelled "Scout , Gore Scouts, llomahapa." It is a good idea to put the kit into a olpan sack and_ simplj label the sack. Kit and provisions are to be handed in at the Temperance Hall on Thursday evening, and the Scouts will parade at the hall on Eridav mornnicr at 7 a.m. and will leave Gore by the 7.30 express, returning on fuesday ni"ht. All Scouts who have uniforms must travel in them, but it is not necessary to carry staves, as they can be cut at the camp. Mouth-organs, tin. whistles, etc., should he taken by those who can play them, as a little music helps to brighten up things when on the march or when sitting round the camp lire at night. Those Scouts _ who have to return home on Monday night would be wise to take biyccles with them if they possess them, so that they will not have to hurry to catch the train or leave the camp as early as they would otherwise need to do. Horace Ellis, a Boy Scout patrol leader, was at Colchester (England) recentlv'presented v.ith a medal from the Chief Scout for gallantry in attempted life-saving. The boy's u: V' drowning in a deep pond, and although encumbered by weeds the boy swam in the dark to his father and got him to the shore. The father, however, died within a few minutes.