GUY FAWKES

Northern Advocate, 8 November 1934, Page 4

GUY FAWKES

TURNED TO ACCOUNT. BOY SCOUT FUNDS. J An effigy of Guy Fawkes was burned jin a huge bonfire in Kaikohe last evening and provided much entertainment to young and old. The celebration was to have taken place on Monday, but had to be postponed owing to rain. Boys and girls, their parents and friends, congregated in the section at thp rear of Mr C. E. Blow’s residence. Here, acting on a suggestion by Mr Blow, Scoutmaster T. Guerin and his boys had put in much labour * making a great pile, surrounded by a number of small piles of dry macrocarpa branches, motor car tyre's, timber, etc. On a scaffold above the central pile was Guy Fawkes’ representation. . By way of warming up the enthusiasm and getting the right atmosphere of powder, and smoke, the small heaps were burned first, and there was much hilarity, particularly among the children, as fireworks of all kinds, both noisy and pretty, were exploded. Later, a collection was taken up to help to pay the cost of having Kaikohe represented at the Scouts’ Jamboree in Melbourne in December.