Scout Nates

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 121, 23 May 1941, Page 9

Scout Nates

(“Rangi.”) Practise Observation A detective, Mr. Justin Chcvasse, describes how, with a practice in observation, you can tell pretty accurately a man’s character from his dress. “The boots are very generally the best test of all the details of clothing. I was with a lady one day in the country, and a young lady was walking just in front of us. “I wonder who she is?” said my friend. “Well,” I said, “I should be inclined to say I wonder whose maid she is.” The girl was very well dressed, but when I saw her shoes I guessed that the dress had belonged to somebody else, had been given to her and refitted by herself—but that as regards boots she felt more comfortable in her own. She went up to the house at which we were staying—to the servants 7 entrance —and we found that she was the maid of one of the ladies staj'ing there. “I was speaking to another detective not long ago about a gentleman we had both been talking to, and we were trying to mako out his character. I remarked, “Well, at any rate, he is a fisherman,” but my companion could not see why—but then, he was not a fisherman himself. 1 had noticed a lot of little tufts of cloth sticking up on the left cuff of his coat. (A good many fishermen, when they take their flies off the line, stick them into their caps to dry; others stick them Into their sleeve. When dry, they pull them out, which often tears a thread or two in the cloth.”) It is an amusing practice, when you are in a railway carriage or bus with other people, to look only at their feet and guess without looking any higher, what sort of people they are, old or young, well-to-do or poor, fat or thin, and so on, and then look up and see how near you have been to the truth. 3rd P.N. West End

Parade was held as usual in the West Eud hall. During the parade signalling and first aid were taken. Also the Kingfishers and the lveas had a night out. The Keas left the Post Office at 7.30 p.m. and had 45 minutes to get to the 11.D.Q., but to get there they had to pass through an area patrolled by the Kingfishers. Tho inter-patrol handball competitions were also held. The first game was between the Seagulls and the Owls, which resulted in a win for the Seagulls. The next game between the Kiwis and Keas was won by the Kiwis who then played off for the Seagulls and won. The Kingfishers then played the Kiwis but were beaten. Thus the Kiwi patrol won the competition. Their team was Des. Dear (P.L.), Cedric Clarke (S.P.L.), Keu Gibbon and Peter Doney. An excitiug game was a game between a team comprising of Rover A. Mclntosh, T.L. Ron Kelly and Scouter R. Tawharu, and a team comprised of Scouter Collins, P.L. Des. Dear and S.P.L. Bill Kelly. At the end of the parade Scouter Collins briefly outlined the programme for parents’ evening. 3rd P.N. West End Pack There were no parades of the Pack during the school holidays but we have been busy passing badges. The following have won their Athlete’s Badge:— Stanley Collins, Melvin Hollier, John Coulter, Brian Honour, Allan Cooksley and Bob Pascoe. Tho Ambulance Badge was won by John Coulter last Monday night.