TROUBLE IN AUCKLAND ALSO

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 169, 19 July 1920, Page 6

TROUBLE IN AUCKLAND ALSO

AUTOCRATIC METHODS

ALLEGED.

In regard to Boy Scout affairs, it is apparent that there is not the best of feeling existent between the Auckland officers and Dominion Headquarters. The whole orux of the matter is evidently that the officers in Auckland are greatly dissatisfied with tho manner in which headquarters has been treating them for some considerable time past. For their part they object to what- they term, "the autocratic methods" used by headquarters in their dealings with branches, especially tho local one. From wliat mia-y be gathered, tho^ discord has been present soi long that there- is now small hope of healing the breach without an actual separation of Auckland from the Dominion Scout organisation, and evidently that is x what Auckland intends to* Ivy and do. At present there is said to- be prob- ; ably no more than 700 e!r 800 Scouts in Auckland,, whereas five years ago there were nearly COOO. The fact thai interest in the movement is languishing is directly attributed by many to \ha mode of'procedure of the head office, and it is considered by men in the movement to-day that much better and mom efficient work could bo done if this state- of things were changed.