FAREWELL BY SCOUTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 305, 22 November 1934, Page 9

FAREWELL BY SCOUTS.

TO LORD BLEDISLOE. Per Press Association. - WELLINGTON, Nov. 21. Farewell to the Chief Scout for New Zealand (Lord Bledisloe) wae said by the Dominion Council of the Boy Scouts’ Association when he attended the annual meeting to-day. Lord Bledisloe was decorated with the honorary Order of Merit. Mr J. R. Kirk was re elected chairman of the council. Rev. W. H. Orbell and Mr G. W. Bishop, retiring members of tlie council, were re-elected. Sir George Wilson (Auckland), Sir Joseph Smith (Auckland), and Air-Marslial Sir Robert Clark-Hall (Christchurch) were elected to the council.

Monseigneur T. Connolly said he was a little worried by an amendment in the rules. Control of Catholic Scouts had been handed to the St. Vincent de Paul Society as the most suitable body to control them, and then an amendment apparently preventing such an arrangement had been made. The chairman (Mr Kirk) said such an arrangement was definitely against the rules and had been previously, but the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s members coukl fill the controlling positions in Catholic troops and the same end would be achieved. It was decided that all members of the party going to the Melbourne jamboree should revert to the rank of Scout and the officers under Commissioner J. R. H. Cooksley, who will be in charge, should bo appointed from them to hold temporary rank, special jamboree commissions to be conferred. It was stated that 233 would go and be away for about five weeks. Ihe New Zealand encampment will be laid out on the lines of a Maori pa ancl each tent will be decorated to resemble a Maori wliare.