GOVERNOR’S SPEECH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 198, 23 July 1931, Page 7

GOVERNOR’S SPEECH.

HOW TO DEAL WITH TROUBLE. Some good advice was given by the Governor (Sir Philip Game), who is Chief Scout of New South Wales, when he presented the King’s colours to Boy Scouts recently. Sir Philip said he had been a soldier all his life, and a Scout for some years, and he knew how to “pack up his trouble in his old kitbag,” as the song had it. Colours were carried into battle up to recent years, but Scout colours were not carried into battle, and never would be, because the Scout movement set out to make everybody understand the futility and the wickedness of war, and lie was quite certain in his own mind that it was going to achieve a very great deal in that direction. But the colours still remained the rallying point of courage and high endeavour, continued His Excellency. He advised them not to take themselves too seriously, and a Scout was no better who folded his hands aud pretended to be the angel he was not. “Let the natural good in us come to the top always, and everywhere,” said Sir Philip, “and we shall not go far wrong. Be cheery, happy, and as light-hearted as you can, and try and be angels with just a wee slice of the dqyil in you.”