Scout Notes

Northern Advocate, 18 July 1935, Page 2

Scout Notes

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THREE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED. G.S.M. HILLS FOR WHANGAREL The No. 8; District (Northland), which up till a few months ago was in charge of D.C. L. S. Abbott (Auckland), has, subsequent to his resignation some months ago, been reorganised. The district has been divided hito three areas, as follows: KAIPARA, DISTRICT.—Mr J. B. Cranston, Turiwiri, Dargaville, is appointed as District Commissioner ot this area, which includes the following groups: First Dargaville, Sacred Heart, Ruawai. FAR NORTH DISTRICT.—Mr T. Guerin, Kaikohe, is appointed District Commissioner of this area, which includes the following groups: Kaikohe, Kokukohu, Paihia, Kaeo. NORTH-EAST DISTRICT.—Mr H. Seddon Hills, Whangarei, is appointed District Commissioner of this area, which includes the following groups; Maungaturoto, First Whangarei, Hora Hora, Trinity. Correspondence, Etc.—Group officers and committee secretaries, will assist enormously by forwarding all correspondence, warrant applications and badge forms through their respective District Commissioners.

RUNNING A TROOP. QUESTIONNAIRE FOR SCOUTERS. The following is the fifth and final instalment of instructions to Scooters—in the form of a questionnaire—written by Mr H. Mac Allister, Commissioner of Training in New South Wales: (8.) Has it struck you that your Camp Programmes can be built - up from the suggestions in “Scouting for Boys,” of which the following are the main headings: (/a) Observation: Training of all the physical senses. Tracking, stalking, nature love. (b) Camping; Responsibility for health. Organisation for comfort. Making things (gadgets). Choice of camp sites. Feeding and cooking. Tents and all about them. fc) Pioneering: Lashing and splicing, knotting. Building bridges, and ways of crossing streams. Woodsraanship. (d) Pathfinding, making estimations. reporting, mapping, first-class journey, wide games. Compare this list with the Tenderfoot, first and Second Class and Proficiency Badge Tests. (9.) Lastly, but most important, do you realise that your Warrant is evidence of a trust reposed in you by your Association and that its confirmation and the issue of a full Warrant is evidence to the Brotherhood that you have proved yourself a “Master of Scouting,” and that it depends on you and the way in which you apply the Chief Scout’s methods to your Scouts.

JOE IS DEAD!

AN INTERESTING KANGAROO. All Scouts and Scouters who have visited Pennant Hills Training Gamp, New South Wales, will remember Joe, the kangaroo. It is announced regretfully that recently Joe lost grasn on existence and passed hence. It is not known just what afflicted our friend of the murmuring wild, though it was noted that he developed a considerable number of cold shivers.

Probably Joe was more widely known than any other kangaroo. Everyone knows the ’roo that jumps off the screen in' Cine-sound films. Joe was the original, and he has carried the spirit of Australia across the world. He was captured when young by aborigines at Carowa Mission Station, near Ivanhoe, and had been at Pennant Hills Camp for six years. SMILE AWHILE. f Visitor: And how old is your baby, dear? Small Sister; He isn’t old at all. He’s a this year’s model. Father: How is it you never remember what you have learned at school during the day? Tommy Bangs always knows what the teacher has said, and can tell his father when he gets home. Son; Yes, but he lives a lot nearer school. The' Sunday school teacher had just read aloud the parable of the prodigal son to a class of small boys. “Now,” she said, “who was it who was the least pleased to see the prodigal son return?” The question rather puzzled the class, but at last a small voice replied; “Please, miss, the fatted calf!”