OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19373, 8 January 1925, Page 11

OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT.

EOT SCOUTS TOR THE LAND. “LOOK WIDE.” (From Crop. Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 27. Although the Boy Scout training in this country undoubtedly prepares a boy for a useful life, those in charge of the organisation long since realised that if the scouts wore to make the best of themselves they must have greater scope than the industrial conditions of this country now provide. If the Scouts who were passing into manhood were to have a chance of becoming prosperous and happy citizens they must spread themselves over the Empire. The slogan of the Chief Scout—“ Book Wide” —is very necessary advice just now to young fellows in Great Britain in more wavs than one. The Scout Migration Department has already done useful work, and in furtherance of their campaign for aiding the boys the department has now issued a booklet, “The Boy Scout and Oversea Settlement,” which should do much to direct the lads’ attention to the countries overseas. It is sanely "written, and it tells th© trutn as obtained by the Commissioner for Oversea Scouts and Migration—Sir Alfred D. Pickford—when ho mode his tour round the Empire a year ago. Moreover, the department is closely in touch with the various dominion migration departments, and in encouraging Scouts to Look Wju© tliey paint no unduly rosy pictures of life orerSC Willingness to Work, Willingness to Learn, and Patience are three headings under which the Scout is advised regarding his. life overseas. '■Why is it so many fellows go to another part of"the Empire, and tell the master how to do his job?” the writer of the pamphlet (Captain C. J. Sutton) asks. “They imagine that after having lived in Great Britain they have little more to learn, and think that every other way of doing things different from their own is wrong, or, uc least second best. A young man settling in ativ one of our dominions, if he is to bo successful, must bo prepared to learn the wavs of the place. Methods of farming in the British Isles are not necessarily the best to use overseas; and, in fact, m nine oa=es out of ten quite the opposu-. and at the least it is very irritating for tno old hand who knows his job to be constantly reminded by a newcomer of the wav it was done at home. “ Willingness to learn means to keep one's eves and ears open, and one’s tongue mi'dity'quict. The dominion farmer values the man who, after being told the way to do things, carries on cheerfully and without question. What the newcomer loams to-day he will himself be teaching to-mor-row. Later on he will have adiar.ee to improve on what he has learnt. So far as New Zealand is concerned it seems that all that is necessary to secure •) supply of new and useful young citizens from the British Boy Scouts is for the dominion scout headquarters to take definite action and encourage the patrols throughout the country to act under the nomination scheme of the Migration Department. The British headquarters can supply any number of boys if the Scouts’ organisations in the dominion will take the responsibility of nominating them.