LORD BADEN-POWELL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20391, 21 October 1929, Page 11

LORD BADEN-POWELL.

FREEDOM OF THE CITY.

COMING DOMINION TOUR. (Received October 20, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless. RUGBY. Oct. 19. Over 200 Boy Scouts and Girl Guides gave a real Scout welcome to Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, yesterday, when he visited the Guildhall to receive the freedom of the City of London, to mark the coming-of-age of tho Scout movement.

Among those present were Mr. Rudyard Kipling, tho Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, and representatives of the civil, business and religious life of the .city, and leaders of the Boy Scout movement from all parts of tho country. Sir Adrian Pollock, the City Chamberlain, in presenting the Chief Scout with a gold box containing a <fopy of the freedom, spoke of tho good influence of the Scou'. movement all over the world. He said there had never been a movement which had succeeded so rapidly, and the generations to come must decide the great Scout leader's place in history.

In replying to tho presentation Lord Baden-Powell said he realised that the honour was bestowed upon him merely as the figurehead of a great brotheihood. It would encourage and inspire Scouts to do thoir best. "It will encourage them to see that not only do they get ,the best out of life, but that they put their best into it. This presentation means that the Scout movement is recognised as a civic movement, and not a militaristic one."

A Press Association message says Lord Baden-Powell has settled the programme for his tour of the Dominions. Accompanied by Colonel "Walton, Headquarters Commissioner, and Mrs. Walton, ho will leave Southampton at the end of January, 1931, for Wellington, via Panama. Ho 'will spend March in the New Zealand centres, and then go to Sydney, Tasmania, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and will reach England late in July. Lady Baden-Powell will devote her activities principally to the Girl Guides, but she and her husband hope to arrange joint rallies of Scouts and Guides at all the centres to bo visited.