CHIEF SCOUT'S VISIT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20767, 9 January 1931, Page 10

CHIEF SCOUT'S VISIT.

ARRIVAL NEXT MONTH.

NO DESIRE FOR CEREMONIES

[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Thursday.

Lord Baden-Powell, chief scout and founder of the Boy Scouts movement, intends to leave London for New Zealand on January 16. He should arrive about the third week in February. It is stated authoritatively that there will be only four reviewn of Boy Scouts during his tour ot the Dominion, one in each of the four centres, at which the chief scout will take the salute. The programme provides for no scout events in any of the provincial centres, and Lord Baden-Powell will not consent to any welcoming ceremonies at any railway stn tion through which he may pass during his tour.

It is said that an effort was made to get the chief scout to accept a scout welcome at Palmerston North, as the centre of a well-populated district in which the scout movement flourishes, but that he declined the honour. An effort was also made to include in tho programme a welcome by New Zealand veterans of tho South African War who desired to honour tho defender of Mafeking, but Lord Baden-Powell intimated in correspondence that he would only meet members of tho 14th and'lßth Hussars, regiments with which he wasi associated during the South African campaign.