A novel idea, in the collection of personal mementoes is provided by the Chief Scout, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who writes in the Sccuter, the official organ of the Boy Scouts’ Association, that he has recently been asked for his footprint! He says; " When I was in Hungary the novel idea occurred to the Scout authorities there of taking an impress of my foot in concrete as proving that I had been there. In consequence of this I have been invited by an Australian Scout-training centre to send them my footprint; but for one thing my foot is not specially a thing of beauty to set up as an ornament, nor did I quite like to send it to a spot which my foot has not yet trodden. Otherwise I should have been proud 'to have my visit recorded an indubitably as a criminal’s thumb-print shows him to have been the guest of his Majesty—in gaol. So when I next go to Australia I shall take with me the most characteristic pair of shoes that I can find."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20644, 16 February 1929, Page 10
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