SCOUT NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12315, 9 December 1925, Page 3

SCOUT NOTES

(By “Scouter.”) What is a boy ? He is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is to sit right -where you are sitting, and attend to those things you think so important when you are gone. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they will be carried out depends upon him. Even if you make leagues and treaties, he will have to arrange them. He is going to sit at your desk, in the Senate, and occupy your place on the Supreme Bench. He will assume control of your cities, States, and nation. He ie going to move in and take over your prisons, churches, schools, universities, and corporations. All your work ie going to he judged and praised, or condemned by him. Your reputation and future are in his hands. All your work is for him, and the fate of the nation and of humanity is in his hands. So it might be well to pay him some attention how.'

It is hoped that a number of exscouts and scouters between the ages of 20 and 40 years will turn up at the “Den” on S'aturday night to hear about the formation of rovers, adapted to assist scouting in and around Wellington.

Last week the commissioner (Sir Alfred Robin) visited the Johnsonville, St. Paul’s, and Upper Hutt troops. Gamp preparations being'discussed, and all are looking forward to good times at the scout camps. About 28 scouts and scouters from St. Augustine’s Petone troop-will be attending the “scout jamboree” at Dunedin in January next. The troop has entered a team for the ambulance competition, and for a troop display a team will build a signalling tower some 46ft high. About a month ago, a party made a trip to Wainui-o-mata for the purpose, of cutting birph and manuka poles for the tower. I The majority of the poles are about 25ft long and quite thick at the ends, and one was all that any member of the party could drag down from the bush on to the road. Tuesday next the troop is giving the parents an evening and two nights after the “wolf cub” pack will do likewise.

A conoert and picture entertainment arranged by the committee - of the Kilbirnie troop Was held in the schoolroom, Knbirnie, on the 3rd instant, there was a large attendance, arid as a ,result a substantial pmount will be added to the Christmas camp fund. Joe programme consisted of items by Hiss Norris, Mr Wilkinson, Mr Edlin and “Tommy,’* Mr Gothub, and Mrs bkew s orchestra. The committee tenders thanks to all who assisted in making the entertainment successful. A well-attended meeting of the re-cently-formed committee of St. Peter’s Mission Colhngwood Sea ScOits was held !a S t Tue s day night. It was decided to hold a children’s party at the Mission Hall, Taranaki street, on the 15th instant, to raise funds for jam®xP<mseß. During the evening Mr Gilbert examined the 12 scouts of the jamboree crew for their secondeiass test, and all were successful in getting through. Last Thursday the Boys’ Institute Had a pleasant evening, work being carried out in the following subjects: —Ambulance, Signalling, tenderfoot compass points, and knots. During tbe evening we had the pleasure of welcoming Mr Richardson, Mr Wosseler and Mr Millar, of the Rotary Club who inspected the troop in its work and afterwards gave the scouts sound advice. Mr Richardson presented service stars to Troop-Leader J. Corliss, Patrol-Leader M. Wellington, and Scouts P. Craddock, R. «ik;n G Sex ton and J. Benfield.. Next. Thursday will be a pound night. All old members please roll up and have a happy time with us once more. The annual camp Will be held at Titalii Bay. . Brooklyn troop committee held a jumble sale on November 28th under the direction of Mrs Dormer and Mrs H. Roberts, and £6 10s was realised. This sum will go towards the camp fund. In order to raise further funds tor the camp, a picture entertainment lias been arranged with the proprietor of the Brooklyn Picture Theatre for the 9th instant. Our camp will be held at Paraparaumu, in conjunction with the St. Paul’s troop, and will commence on Boxing Day, terminating on January 2nd. New Year’s Day will be visitors’ day. Our roll totals 30 scouts, with an average attendance for the year of 21. All boys have passed the tenderfoot test, and nearly half are second-class scouts. The formation of a “wolf cub pack’’ is now under consideration.

Dear cubs, if there is one really had habit some cubs have, it is sulking. Why they sulk, I don’t know,/or to me it’s such a waste of good time. To see a chap mooning around with a face as long as a fiddle' over nothing is—well, it’s just too had for anything. And what good does it do? None at all, because a fellow who sulks is left to himself, until he gets over it, and if he doesn’t get over it quickly, he won’t have anyone speaking to him untj! he does. So, if any of you fellows have the sulk habit, just try my cure for it—smiling and whistling. Mind you, It’s not easy to smile and whistle at the same tihie, but it’s_ a jolly sight harder to sulk and smile together. Next time you’re going off for a sulk, just trv a Smile. Kindly arid reus your notes to Scoutmaster f. “Meachen, “Ithaca,” Thorndon quay.