ROY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 432, 24 June 1922, Page 4

ROY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES.

A suggestion has boon made by Dr. ,1. S. Purdy, Chief .Medical Officer of Now South Wales, and at one time Health Officer at Auckland, where he made many 1 Heads, that some of the principles of Roy* Scout and Girl Guide training should he introduced into the Australian schools, and that an invitation should bo sent to Major-General Sir Robert Baden Rowell to re-visit Australia and draft a scheme for the re-orgaiiisatico of the junior cadets on scout lines. Speaking of his experience of the army m peace and war, Dr. Tardy said that he had been most impi ossed \v ith the tact that the qualities most required in the making ol an efficient soldier are discipline, intelligence, alertness, initiative, resource and esprit do corps. Having served with the New Zealanders in the Sonin African war, and with the Australians in the recent, war, ho had expressed the opinion, on more than one o'V:i.H;m, that if prowess in the field ol w r or -p u.T can count lor anything, me y Mm; Australian or New Zealander nankt nai tear to meet the .stranger either >,;..nli; or without bis gates. “It is Just those qualities which one seeks to encourage by the teaching of .scouting lor boys, viz., resourcefulness, character, seli-coutrol,

and ihe spirit oi playing the game, which (Dr. Purdy adds) were so marked in the Anzacs, and which can in my opinion be perpetuated' in tbo rising ami future generations of Australia by instilling the ideals ol scout-craft in beys and the principles and practice of Girl Guides in the girls.” That is all very true, and is in keeping with the representations made from time to time by the “Standard” in its advocacy of scout training in preference to the cadet system. Dr. Purdy's suggestion is one that might very well be considered by the Ministers of Education and Defence. It should surely be within the hounds of possibility lor the two Departments to evolve a scheme which would answer all the requirements of the Defence authorities, and yet carry out .the wider training which the boy scout system offers to the youth of the nation in much more interesting fashion than the cadet system affords, and without the tedious drills and route marches that have so frequently figured in the training by the military authorities. The physical drills now practised in must schools might well form part of the training both for boy scouts and girl guides, and a new interest would he imparted to the business if the Radon Powell system became general in ail schools, and the boys and girls were taught the practical side of things anil so became more self-reliant and resourceful, and thus better fitted for the territorial training which, under such circumstances, need not be entered upon until the boy scout attained his eighteenth year, If Dr. Purdy's suggestion is taken it]) by the authorities in Australia and an invitation ■ is sent to Major-General Sir Robert Baden Powell to visit the Commonwealth for the purpose of conferring with the educational and military authorities and initiating a working scheme adapted to Hie primary and secondary schools, an invitation might well be sent to the defender of Matching j,o visit this Dominion also, as we believe, by doing so, a considerable saving; could be effected in the Defence Department by the substitution of the boy scout for the cadet system, with material benefit to the youth of the nation.

I lie President of Ilio United Slates lias refuted lo approve of complete independence lor die Philippine Islands.

It, is reported in Paris dial Britain has Bent a Note to Franco protesting against a concession being granted by tic Sultan of Morocco to a French company tor the construction ol the port of Tangier. Members of the Federal Labour Party are Stated to regard with a good deal of suspicion the visit of Mr Satire the Indian delegate, as being aimed against the principle of a while Australia. Since 1910 llio following amounts have been expended on the Fast Coast railway; Napier section northwards, £193.200; Wuirott northwards, £15,075; Gisborne northwards, £237,397,

At a- meeting of the Cambridge Borough Council this week throe of the members had a disagreement with tho .Mayor and loft tho room, the meeting having to cease as there was not a quorum remaining.

Signor .Marconi has announced that ho is Convinced that a wireless telephone between NY-w York and London is a matter of only a few years. He added that all the present radio apparatus will be completely obsolete in ten years’ time. The Minister of Public Works stated at Napier yesterday that he hoped to have the plale-lnying on the section of the East Coast railway to Eskdalo completed in four months, and that portion ot the line handed over to the Railway Department it, about six months.

An instance- of family longevity is mentioned by an Otago correspondent, who says that his parents arrived in Otago m 1853 with a family of 10, Since that time there were three births and four deaths in the family, and the average ago of the nine survivors is 75 years. ■Arrangements lor the salvaging of the wrecked steadier Wiltshire have been definitely spilled. The underwriters of the vessel and cargo invited tenders to salvage tho vessel by contract on the “no cure no pay” stipulation. Ten tenders were put in, and one was accepted, “Did you not go to the Tauhorenikan races at Easter?” was asked a judgment debtor <it- tlio Carterton Magistrate’s Court. “Yes. I took my wife for tin outing, and she deserved it after milking cows night and morning for several months,” was the prompt answer. The Minister for Education in New South W’ides states that- the congestion in the prithary schools is so serious that the Government must shortly consider the question of charging for secondary education as for some time to come it will be unable to uflord by any other means to provide further educational facilities in this direction.

The Manawatu Rugby Union has received advice that, in all probability, tho New Zealand team to lour New South Wales will play a match in Palmerston North against the combined Alanawatu-lloro-whenua representative team on July 19, the day before the former combination leaves for Australia.

A country correspondent of the Hamilton Times says that there are rumours of a cheese factory being built by a Taranaki firm for tlio soldier settlement at Alaugataparn, also a butler factory at Morrinsville by a now company. Should those rumours be correct, it will show that the farmers have not lost hope of better times.

New Zealand's representative full-back of last season, C. N. Kingston, received serious injuries lust Saturday. Kingston and other members of a football team were returning to New Plymouth by a motor-car from Kapotiga, where they had been engaged that afternoon, when the vehicle cap,slued over a bank and caused injury to several of the occupants, Kingston being the most severely hurt of the party,

At a meeting of the Council of Education, a proposal was brought forward to ask the Minister to amend the constitution so that all branches of the teaching service could bo equally represented. It was contended that the council could not fulfil its purpose unless it contained representatives of the technical, university and administrative sections. The motion was lost on the voices

At the Supreme Court, at Greymouth yesterday Mr Justice Adams hoard die claim of Peter McKenzie, machinery inspector, for £2OO damages jointly against the Grey River Argus and Frederick Turley, the Timber Workers’ Union secretary, based on reports of three sawmill accidents, especially one which Turley supplied, alleging negligent inspection of machinery. After an ail day hearing, Mr Justice Adams found for plaintiff for £75 and costs. The unemployed problem is being effectively solved in the .Hawke’s Bay district (states a Press Association telegram from Napier). The Napier Borough Council has engaged ten returned soldiers who were without work, and in Hastings the sum of £IOOO has been voted to provide work for those unfortunately situated. In addition, the Minister of Public Works stated yesterday that arrangements had been made to employ JO extra men on the Eskdale section of the East Coast railway. These men will be sent out on Monday. All cases in which distress was reported will thus be dealt with.

Commenting' on the solar eclipse which will be observed in parts of Australia on September 21 next, Professor Cooke told the C! rail on correspondent of the Sydney Sun that a few minutes after three o’clock the moon would bo just alongside the sun, almost touching it. Before nine minutes past 3 o’clock the moon’s edge would go across the sun. For the next hour the people would simply sec the black moon over the sun. “Your next thrill,” he said, “will he when the eclipse is complete. During the eclipse everything will be still. The fowls will go to roost. A weird wind will blow towards you. Then that shadow will come rushing at you at a speed unimaginable, and just at r. moment’s notice you look- up to sec one oi the most wonderful events in the total eclipse. In that wonderful, magnificent event the corona forms a completely dazzling halo of glory flushing round the .tun."

A rather sensational accident occurred in Blenheim last week. Mr C, Costello (reports the Express) was performing some soldering repairs to a big benzine reservoir of the type which is carried at the rear of most motor-cars, when a violent explosion occurred. The petrol had been drawn out of the tank, but apparently the dregs were oi considerable quantity, and their ignition from the red-hot soldering-iron caused the explosion The ends of the tank were blown clean out. One found an exit via the roof, taking two sheets of corrugated iron in iis course. The partitions riveted in the tank were torn out. Mr Costello was thrown violently to the floor, but apart from the gearing of the irout of his vest iuid a blow on the throat he escaped unscratched.

The lion. G. J. Anderson, when passing through Dunedin on his way to Welling ton, is reported to have said that all his legislation for the approaching session was well forward, and would be introduced at an early stage. It would be mostly of a consolidating character. The Harbours Hill and the Workers’ Compensation Bill were of that nature. He also had a Weights and Measures Bill drafted, .and he proposed to put seine .Mining Bills before Parliament, dealing with coal-mining as well as ordinary mining. “Will it ly busy session 7” the Minister was asked and ho replied that it would be. A further question us to how long the session would last, the Minister answered that he thought it would probably run into November.

In to-day’s “Standard” the N.Z. Cattlecake and Oil Co., Ltd., insert « special announcement of interest to dairy farmers with regard to the visit of “BiU'Moosc.”

Ihe Mnnawatu Bowling and Croquet Club announce that the dance to have been held on June 12th will now take place on Monday next at the Anzac Hall.

Sixteen degrees of frost were recorded at Hamilton yesterday morning. The provincial cross-country athletic championships will diis year bn held n Manlerton. The premises of a firm of tailors in Attckland were broken into this week and goods to tbo value of about £BS stolen. Collections made on Thursday on behalf of the district nursing fund in Palmerston North totalled £llO, which is about £3O !c-.s than was contributed last year, A voting mail aged 22 years was sentenced at the Auckland Police Court on Thursday to two months’ imprisonment for selling bogus Tattersall’s tickets. A .Sydney message reports the death ot Dr. Litchfield, specialist in children's diseases, "ho was president of that section at the Australian .Medical Congress at Brisbane in 1920. Mr \V. (I. Cocker, the associate of llis Honour, the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), lias resigned his position in order to join the staff of an Auckland firm ot solicitors The flag at the post office was to-day flying at half-mast m memory of the late Sir Henry Wilson, Chief ol the Imperial General (Staff, who was assassinated in Lon. don on Thursday. Mr Harold Beauchamp, late chairman of directors of the Bank ot New Zealand, who left Wellington by the Tahiti on April 11th, has now arrived ”in England, after a stay of some six weeks in Canada and the United Stales. Edward Hcdley Kitchener Hughes, a young man employed in the post office, was charged at the Dunedin Police Court yesterday with Stealing £IOOO, the property of the New Zealand Government, and was remanded on bail for seven days. Mr John Kerr Edie, at present headmaster at Martinborough, lias been appointed to the charge ot the Carterton District High School. Mr Edie, who is a sot; of Mr J. Edie, M.P. tor Bruce, was educated at the Tokoinairtl'o District High School in Otago, and has had a distinguished career as a teacher. On the recommendation of the director of the nursing division of the Health D. partmetit, Nurse Lii/io Fraser, who was trained at New Plymouth Hospital and Si. Helens, Wanganui, and is now on the staff of the Palmerston North Hospital, was appointed by the Taranaki Hospital Board district nurse at Until A tour-roomed house at Happy Valley, near Albany, was destroyed by lire about, 11 o'clock one night this week. Tho only inmate of the house, Mr Schcnker, had a iiartow escape. Ho was awakened by smoke pouring into his room, and had only time to partially dress and escape by the window. Mr J, A. Nash. ALP., mentioned at the annual reunion of the Palmerston North South African War Veterans’ Association last night that Air D. F. Wilbur, tho United States Consul-General in New Zealand, was always a keen visitor to the Manawattt A, and P. A. shows. Mr Wilbur did not come for only a day, but for a whole week. He had attended the last, three shows and already had booked his accommodation for the next spring show. At the annual meeting of the Hawke’s Bay-Manawatu Methodist Council at Foxton this week, the Rev. G. S. Cook was re-elected secretary, and the Revs. P, -J, Cossum and A. Aid Sean were appointed reporters to the Methodist Times. The annual district synod was fixed for Tuesday, November 7, at Feilding; and it was decided to hold the next annual council at Dannevirke.

Dr. 1!. Trnmpler, a member of the Lick Observatory Eclipse Expedition, is expected to arrive in Wellington by the Maratna tomorrow. For some two months Dr Trumpler has been stationed at Tahiti, where he has secured photographs of the stars in the part of ihe sky where the eclipse will take place. For this purpose he used the same 40ft camera that is to be used at the Eclipse Station at Wallal, in North-we-t Australia, for the total eclipse of the aim on September 21. The chief object in making these photographs is to secure evidence to test the much-discussed Einstein theory.

A brief story of “great expectations” and of an unpleasant surprise was told in a case that was mentioned in the Dunedin Police Co art. It was stated that the defendant in the case referred to was resident in the North Island, and that he saw an advertisement in the newspapers asking that he should communicate with a Dunedin firm of solicitors. With visions of “hearing something to his advantage,” he win tod no time in getting into communication with the enquirers by means of the telegraph. His surprise was doubtless great when he found that ho was wanted in connection with a maintenance order. The demand for beef at the Westfield (Auckland) fat stock sales on Wednesday was scarcely as keen ns last week. Choice and prime ox maintained last week’s rales, bill pla in cattle and cow beef values were easier. Extra choice ox realised up to 20s per 1001 b; prime and choice, 18s to 19s: ordinary and plain, 15s to 17s. Prime young cow and heifer beef brought from 16s to 19s. (Mutton values were slightly easier. Wethers bw.vrht from IBs 6d to 5s 9d; ewes, 9s to 27s 6d, There was more than the average valuing of lambs, and all classes sulfered a further decline in values. Prices were from 12s 6d to 22s 6d, Finn values ruled for pigs, choppers realising up to £4. i

Speaking at the annual reunion of the Palmerston North South African War Veterans’ Association last night, Mr 1). F. Wilbur, United States Consul-General in New Zealand, in dealing with the subject of the Anglo-Saxon race which, lie said, was a pet one with him, advised Britishers to keep loyally to their King and country am! Americans to stick to their country. Both, however, should always keep in mind that they belonged to the greatest race God had ever created. The peace and welfare of the whole world depended on the future of these two great English-speaking nations, and lie did not think for one minute that the United Stales and the British Empire wore going to be foolish enough not to work together.