Boy Scout Association Holds Annual Meeting

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 274, 22 November 1934, Page 7

Boy Scout Association Holds Annual Meeting

FAREWELL TO LORD BLEDISLOE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Farewell to the Chief Scout for New Zealand (Lord Blcdisloe) was said by the Dominion Council of the Boy Scouts’ Association when ho attended its annual meeting to-day, and he was decorated with tho 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 the council, were re-elected. Sir George Wilson (Auckland), Sir Joseph Smith (Auckland) and Air-Marshal 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 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 could fill the controlling positions in Catholic troops and the same end would be achieved. It was decided that all members of the parly going to the Melbourne jamboree should revert to the rank of Scout and that officers under Commissioner J. R. H. Cookslev, who will be in charge, should be 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. The New Zealand encampment will be laid out on the lines of a Maori pa and each tent will be decorated to resemble a Maori whare.