SCOUT NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23858, 12 July 1939, Page 8

SCOUT NOTES

By Grey Badger

HEADQUARTERS NOTICES Are you all ready for the bike race? The bike will be passing through George street on Saturday morning about 10.30 or 11 o’clock. All Scouts participating in the race will receive final instructions from their Scouters Scouts wishing to give the message a good send-off can meet at headquarters about 10.30. and will be told where to go. There are still a few hobbies programmes left, and groups who have not yet received them can have same from the metropolitan secretary. The Rock Council meeting, which will in future be the C.M.’s monthly meeting, will be held at the Ocean Beach Hall on Tuesday, July 25, at 8 p.m. A quarterly meeting will be held with the S.M.'s. so all C.M.’s are requested to attend these councils. We welcome the following tenderpads and tenderfeet; —B Armishaw, B. Childs, K. Morland, K. McCormack. R Simpson, T Velenski. D Murray, B. McKay, H. Brown, H. Freeman. L. Gibson, J. Chalmers, C. Janus, K. Pickering. I. Scott, and C. Docherty; and congratulate the following badgewinners:— Doidge. Ellis. Sparrow, Phillips, Bruce (Roslyn), MacDonald (Mornington), Lee, Dawson (Knox). Swanson, Petre (Ocean Beach), Grindley (St. Clair) Thompstone. Periofsky. Milne. Walker. Haig (H.N.). Gray. Arnold, Gallagher. Hurring (Christian Brothers)—ambulance; Hurring. Bartlett, Tomkins, Lomas, Mee. Walker, Brent. McLennan, Shaw, Haig, Wallace, Swanson. Child. Petre. Simoson. Bruce, Pickering. Ellis. Doidge, Gray. Arnold, Armour— healthyman; Butcher —artists: Balnchett. Butcher, Hallcyclists.

GROUP REPORTS Ist Dunedin (Roslyn, Te Rahiri). On the arrival of Scouter the troop proceeded to the Maori Hill Hall and took part in a “going up ceremony.” Two boys were passed from the Cubs into the troop, one coming to the Te Rahiri and the other the Arawa Troop We welcome them and wish them good Scouting. Arriving back at the den we were pleased to hear our troop leader had passed his ambulance badge. Programmes for the hobbies exhibilion were passed out. After several Scout tests and prayers the troop dismissed. A short C.O.H. followed Ist Dunedin (Arawa).—The programme commenced with a game of basketball, followed by Morse practice on the troop’s buzzers. Several Scout activities were gone into and enjoyed by all. The C.O.H. discussed the hobbies exhibition, and names were submitted for the jamboree bike race. 2nd Dunedin (Mornington).—Work has been progressing favourably during the last two or three weeks. The troop will be well represented at the jamboree. 26 Scouts and 4 officers are making the trip. Owing to the cold weather the attendance was not as good as usual, but physical jerks and stave drill soon warmed up those attending. First class work filled a good portion of the programme, followed by a game of “ British bulldog.” flag down and dismissal.

6th Dunedin (Mosgiel).—Hakas commenced the evening’s activities The duty patrol organised several games while the gear was put out. Games over, Scouter took inspection, after which roll call was taken. The troop then broke up for patrol work. An investiture ceremony took place, and Scouts Jarvis. Scott and Gibson were welcomed into the brotherhood and presented with their tenderfoot badges. After a game of “ hand Soccer ” the promise brought the evening to a close. 9th Dunedin (Mohican).—The evening commenced with all joining in a game of “dodge ball.” Inspection was taken, and then Duty P.L. Stone took over. Signalling was the first item on the programme, followed by square lashing. The hand “ Soccer ” team to play North Dunedin had a practice against the rest. Before break-off and promise, G. Butcher was presented with his artist’s badge. R. Blanchette, G. Butcher and C. Hall were successful in passing their cyclists’ badge.

St. Andrew’s Troop.—The troop fell in for inspection at 7 p.m. P.L. Cuttle prepared Kim’s game, and Scouts Lee, Fraser and Westworth succeeded in passing the test. The troop now had an exciting game of deck tennis. In the near future we are having our birthday, and we had quite a busy time practising items. A game of pass stave resulted in a draw. The troop was dismissed with the promise. A C.O.H. was held to discuss the birthday party. The first correct answer to the following problem will receive a free ticket to the birthday party:—A man is looking at a picture, and says: “ Sisters and brothers, have I none but that man’s father is my father’s son? ” Who is the picture of? Answers should be sent to M. Spence. 38 Melville street, Dunedin. C.2.

sth Dunedin (Ocean Beach).—After inspection the troop received instruction on splicing by patrol leaders for about 20 minutes. The second period consisted of games, and the Seal patrol won at “ dodge ball.” During the third session, individual badge work, we were pleased to welcome guests from the Christian,Brothers’ Troop, and we challenged them to a game of hand “ Soccer.” The going was hard, the cheering enthusiastic, and the game was played in the best of Scouting spirit. In reply to our welcome, our visitors invited the troop to visit them on any of their parade nights. The presentation of three amulance badges and flag-down brought the evening of Scouting to a close. Knox Troop.—The troop welcomed two American S.M.’s, Mr Bodell and Mr Grant, who gave a short talk on American Scouting. The Ravensbourne and Holy Name Troops payed a visit to witness films and slides of the famous Arrow Jamboree. We wish to thank Mr Ashby for giving the troop the opportunity of viewing this jamboree and his talk, which made one think one had actually been there Several exciting intertroop competitions were held, and our tug-of-war team proved not good enough for our Ravensbourne visitors. After the meeting closed a short C.O.H. was held.

Wesley Troop.—At 6.15 p.m. Scouter gave the A.R.P. alarm and it took 65 minutes to assemble the troop at H.Q. This will have to be improved on if the troop wants to be successful in the stunt to be held shortly. After Flag-break and inspection a new game was tried out and was proved a success. Patrol work then occupied half an hour—-Owls lashing. Bulldogs signalling and Hawks ambulance. The troop was pleased to welcome “ Kim ” and A.S.M Lane. The Owls again finished top of the list in the monthly competition and P.L. Martin is to be congratulated. The Promise and Flagdown concluded the evening’s activities.

28th Dunedin (Christian Brothers).— P.L Gallagher. Second Arnold and Scout Grey were congratulated on passing their ambulance badge Grey and Arnold were also successful in gaining their healthy man’s badge After parade a C.O.H was held and several troop matters were discussed Mohican Wolf Cubs—Ten Cubs answered Akela’s call After inspection and roll call Star work was taken The Wesley pack arrived and was welcomed with the Grand Howl An exciting game of dodge ball took place followed by several other games Supper was served at 8.30 p.m., after which our visitors departed. Notices, Promise, Law and the Lord’s Prayer brought the evening to a close.

Wesley Cubs.—The pack visited the Mohican Pack last Wednesday and hopes more visits of this kind can be arranged. On Friday Pack opened with Grand Howl followed by Inspection by Chil. As the night was cold, plenty of games were played. Akela demonstrated the “ dance of Sherc Khan,” which will be learnt by the pack. We were pleased to welcome the Akela of the North Dunedin Pack, who gave an interesting campflre talk on the Australian jamboree. The troop welcomed two new chums into the jungle. A happy evening was finished with a reminder of the Hobbies Exhibition, Grand Howl and the Lord’s Prayer. . , Holy Name Pack.—Owing to mclemerit weather there was not a full attendance at the meeting. After inspection and collection of subscriptions the pack played several games and then Akela took the tenderpads for first star work. The “dance of Shere Khan’s death” proved popular. It was arrangd for the pack to meet on Saturday afternoon, when the time would be occupied with games. The meeting concluded with Grand Howl and prayers.

OVERSEAS NEWS NIGERIAN SCOUTS AND SOCIAL SERVICE Leper Scouts at the Itu Leper colony are taking on an increasing number of responsible jobs One of the most important is taking the temperature of the 2000 lepers m the colony twice a day. Some of the older Scouts are teachers in the school. Many of these lepers have passed the First Class tests without any modification of the rules. The S.M. passed his Scouters test while still a victim of this awful disease, but is now happily freed from it. These happy leper Scouts work for their uniform, and the principal of the colony speaks most highly of them and of the good influence of Scouting. A Wolf Cub pack is to be formed in the near future, and there is also prospects of another troop being formed at another leper colony at Oji River. As the following story shows, Nigerian Scouts are keen to assist the sanitary authorities to keep the town clean: “Two Scouts returning from school for their holidays were so disgusted with the dirtiness of the village that they went to the local chief and told him what they thought about it, at the same time offering to clean up the place, as (he chief did not have to do the job himself, he made no objection to the lads doing it, and they were soon at work tidying the footpaths and streets. When this was done they went round the compounds pointing out to the owners of the dirty ones how unfavourably they compared to the clean ones. The owners of the dirty compounds were really shamed intp cleaning up. A missionary who visited a village found a man puking down ms fence and inquired the reason. The man replied: ‘Well, Sir, the Scouts said my fence was a disgrace to the village so I had to ’’ebulli it. Scouts are also helping to keep down mosquitoes and the water supply free from weeds and contamination. Rover Scouting is on the increase and one of the good turns of this unit was the building of a bridge over a wide, deep river, saving a five-mile detour for the inhabitants. They have also formed a team for the British .Red Cross Society and have ottered themselves for blood transfusion. Mpst troops in Nigeria are attached to institutes and the illiterate boy is thus left out in the cold. The third troop is trying to do something about this and have opened their ranks to an equal number of “ town boys and are all trained in the vernacular. At first some opposition was encountered from the local chiefs when the troop wanted to make a clearing near the town, but finally this was overcome, and the chiefs also use it as the council meeting ground. A move has been made to introduce Scouting to the Moslems of Northern Nigeria and a troop is being formed at an elementary school at Kano City.