Scouts' Organisation Formed In Far North

Northern Advocate, 14 March 1945, Page 6

Scouts ' Organisation Formed In Far North

(Special) KAITAIA, This Day. With the object of establishing a Boy Scouts’ organisation, to bo known as the Ist Kaitaia Group, a meeting of parents and others interested was held m Kaitaia at the end of last week.

The Scouting Commissioner for Northland (Mr. P. Hill, Dargaviile) attended the meeting and gave valued information concerning (he movement and the local organisation required. “Of 8000 boys who appeared before* the juvenife Courts of New Zealand last year, none were Scouts,” Mr. Hill told the meeting, in dealing with the movement's influence for the well-being cf boys. Those present unanimously agreed, that Scouting should be placed on a firm footing in Kaitaia, and the following officer t were elected: —Chairman. Mr. L. G. Thompson; secretary. Miss G. Erljevich; committee, Rev. J. Graham, Rov. L. K. Gilmore. Mrs. R. H. Kelly and Messrs. R. R. Torrie and R. C. Williams.

Messrs. Thompson and Williams were deputed to approach suitable citizens with a view to the appointment ,ci a scoutmaster. assistant scoutmaster, and cubmaster. Messrs. Thompson and J. S. Paulson were also appointed trustees to operate a Post. Office Savings Bank account. Some 30 boys attended the meeting, and their keenness augured well for the future of the movement in the district.

Up to. the present thei'e have keen only a few Bov Scouts in the Far North, consisting of'about half a dozen lone Seoul? at kaitaia and a similar number at Waiharara.