BOY SCOUTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14159, 7 September 1909, Page 5

BOY SCOUTS.

MESSAGE FROM THE KING. By Telegraph —Press Association.—Copyright, (Received September 6, 11.50 p.m.) 1 London, September 6. Eleven thousand boy scouts we're on Saturday afternoon inspected by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell at the Crystal Palace*. His Majesty the King, in a message to the boys, assured them of his great interest in the movement, adding: "If I should call upon you later on in life, the sense of patriotic responsibility and discipline acquired in boyhood will enable you to do your duty as men in the event of danger threatening the Empire." The boy scouts organised last year by Lieutenant-general Baden-Powell lately received a great accession of strength, owing to the adoption by many of the boys' organisations in connection with the churches, including the Jewish Boys' Brigades, of the rules and discipline of the scouts. This means an addition of 120,000 boys, which, added to the. membership roll of 150,000 previously existing, brings the total up to 250,000. MOVEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND. [BY TKLEGE.irH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] Wellington, Monday. The Boy Scouts movement throughout the Dominion is being co-ordinated by the constitution of an executive. Major Cosgrove, of Kaiapoi, holds the rank of Dominion Chief Scout. Colonel Snow has been appointed commander in the South Island, and Dr. R. H. Makgill. of Wellington, is in command of the North Island. Mr. Hector McLeod, also of Wellington, is secretary for the North Island, and will keep a register of patrols for that division. District commands, which will control work in the various centres, are about to be established.