BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15262, 28 March 1913, Page 5

BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

RECORD ACTIVITY SHOWN* V

[BY TELEGRAPH.— COEEESPONDEK*.J Chriotchubch, Thursday. WamNQ to The Press, Lieutenant-Colonel

Cossgroro, Chief Dominion Scoot, says . thai at no time in the history of thai , movement in the Dominion has there been so milch activity among the scoots or so many new lads become scoots aa there have during the last nine months, Sineei. July last not fewer than 2000 new boys have beoome boy scouts, and a reference to the register shows that over 220, soout' officers have been registered during th« same time. There are. probably in the Dominion at the present moment upwards of. 000 boy scouts and 1600 men en« gaged in their training or assisting in their management., . "If you take into account our snail population," he added, " I think you will admit New" Zealanders stand well in the scout world. We have also established Dominion sea scouts, and *' ships' companies ** or '* boats' crews" have been formed at Dunedin, Port. Chalmers, Lyt- • telton, Wellington, Napier, Gisborne* Auckland. Whangarei, and BusselL During the past month we have registered not less than 12 new scout districts, and so keen have some of the. boya become that both in the North Island and •in the . South individuals who are situatedfa-A isolated places have asked me for permis- . .. sion to ■ form 'lone sooutß.' This does not' look like a falling-off of interest nor juss !iify the statement that the boy soootT' .movement appears unfortuoAtely nofc to bin making i* Nss 3galaß&3 " 1 • ■ ■ " Vi " '■-■.-V •''..A-V'