SCOUT NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 7

SCOUT NOTES

(By “Tenderfoot.”) I have to pass on to,yon some good news, so just sit about and keep the paper away from father until you have read these notes carefully. Wo have news of a visit to the Hutt Valley district. The date has yet to he decided upon. This trip dias long been looked for, having been postponed on account of the infantile paralysis last year. The scooters will .meet the Dominion executive at a garden party. The Cub swimming sports are being held in the West End baths. The Scout swimming sports arc to he lie Id in the municipal baths. , A LETTER FROM CHINA. Written in almost fautless copperplate style and couched in excellent English, there lias conic to Dunedin Boy Scouts an eloquent letter of appeal for assistance for Red Cross work m Central China. The writer of the letter is Wang Kang Ring, a 15-year-old Chinese Boy Scout, who is a pupil of the hirst Municipal School at 1 Hankow, and the appeal was addressed to Mr C. H. Wing, Commissioner 'of. Boy Scouts for Otago. In ins letter Wang Kang Ling states:— “I am sending you this letter bei cause we are all Boy Scouts, wearing the same Baden-Powell uniform, saluting with three lingers, and having exactly the same. heart of serving mankind. I am 15 years old and a member of the No. .'i Patrol of the No. 2 Group of the No. 328 Troop of Chinese Boy Scouts. “These are times of adventure and danger for Boy Scouts. The air raids have caused the killing and wounding of many thousands of poor, helpless people. After these raids, our older comrades go to the scene of the bombing with stretchers and first-aid kits and have good chances to carry out the second oath of our promise: ‘To help other people at all times.’ All of us help in one way or another, visiting the hosuitals with comforts for the wounded and writing letters for them. “1 am trying to do my duty by helping the suffering and the homeless, and I am also trying to serve the Red Cross by sending this letter to von. asking you to do a good turn by sending money or medicines to Central China. “My Chinese brother Scouts and I have together written this letter. We all should be happy to have a j reply from you and to know about j the' Scouts’ work in vour district.

Please help the Red Cross if you can. They need much money.” TROOP NOTES. 4th Palmerston North. All Saints’ Troop. —Instead of holding our usual meeting on Friday of last week, we went for an outing at Bledisloe Park. At 5.30 p.m. we met at the park and went lor a swim, which everyone enjoyed. Then we boiled two billies and had some tea. Next followed some wide games, first in which a boy guarded a tin and the rest of the troop hid. Then he had to try to find them, called out their names and beat the tin three times. After he had caught two hoys anyone could free them by creeping lip and throwing the tin away. This went on three times and then the next, person he saw took his place. Then followed a game of flags. The troop was dismissed at 9 o’clock after a very enjoyable eevning. Te Awe Awe Cub Notes. —As nobody has yet heard of our doings this year we will give a full report. On two occasions we have taken advantage of the good weather and enjoyed outdoor meetings, the first of which was held at Bledisloe Park, when swimming was enjoyed, also tea out-of-doors. This week once more Cubs were glad to know that swimming was the programme for the day. At the municipal baths Cubs tried out events for the swimming sports. Our other pack | meetings was held indoors as the wca- ] tlier prevented an outdoor meeting. I Ewen Drake again taught us one of his games. I ============= |