BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18017, 16 February 1922, Page 8

BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

THE DOMINION EXECUTIVE.

BOAT FOR RAGLAN TROOP. (BI raJEQBAPH.—OWN COBIIESI'ONDEh'r.] CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday.

At a meeting of the Dominion executive committee of the Boy Scoutg' Association Captain Bellamy, scout commissioner at Cambridge, reported that the Raglan Boy Scout troop had been changed into sea scouts. Ho made application for a boat if one could be made available. The chief commissioner, Captain D, C. W. Cossgrovc, stated that he would make inquiries in tho Raglan district as to the possibility of obtaining a- boat there for the sea scouts. The chairman, Brigadier-Genera) A. W. Andrew, reported that he had received a communication from the Governor-Gen-eral, Lord Jellicoe, stating that Sir Robert Baden Powell, chief scout, had asked if the chief commissioner could bo permitted to proceed to England ( where he could ptudy methods of training, organ- • isation, etc. The chief scout stated that although very " hard up " tho Imperial headquarters would be glad to provide £100 towards Captain Cossgrovo's expenses. Tho meeting tffecided that owing to the great amount of organisation work required to be done as the result of the great increase in scouting during the past 12 months, also owing to the financial position, it would be impossible to spare Captain Cossgrove this year. Captain Cossgrovo reported that as a result of his visit to Dunedin he had selected and purchased from tho Union Steam Ship Company nino boats suitable for sea scouts. It was decided that his action in purchasing the boatg be ap■proved, that repairs suggested should be carried out, and that he should report to the next meeting his proposed distribution of the boats, bringing forward draft regulations in regard to their care, persons to be responsible therefor, proposed form of agreement to be signed, and estimated cost of insurance of boats against loss.

The holding of a Dominion scout rally in Christchurch during the Christmas ana New Year holidays, 1922-23, was approved.