BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT
TESTED BY THE TIMES LORD BLEDISLOE'S SUPPORT [Bl' TEr.EC.RAFH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday The Dominion Boy Scout Council was opened to-day by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, tho Dominion Chief Scout. He referred _to the growth of the movement in the Dominion, the membership now being 12,404, a net increase of 588 for
the year. Ho welcomed the increase in the number of sea scouts. This was a desirable development in a sea-girt country, whose «*>* nomtc existence depended upon the coin* mand of the seas and the uninterrupte interchangejpl sea borne merchandise. The scout movement was being put by economic adversity to a supreme test, ft was his earnest hope and confident belie that it would issue with enhanced prcstig# and an even wider acknowledgment of it® national utility.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21344, 19 November 1932, Page 10
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131BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21344, 19 November 1932, Page 10
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